Re: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com

>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
>     [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of
>     Robert & Linda Smith
>     Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:59 AM
>     To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>     Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com

>     Thanks Bill,
>     I don't think I have a DOS prompt with Win XP but will look around
>     some more.
>     Bob Smith

>     Atherton, Bill (AZ15) wrote:

>     What can be interesting is to see the route a message you send
>     takes.  This can be done from a DOS prompt.  It does not work
>     against all servers as some have pinging blocked.  Say you want to
>     see how you connected to yahoo you would type    "tracert
>     www.yahoo.com <http://www.yahoo.com>" from the DOS prompt.  Do not
>     include the "".  This will return a list of every server your
>     message went through on its way to yahoo.  It will also tell you
>     how long it took to get there.  I cannot test yahoo here from work
>     as our firewall blocks pinging.  tracert stands for trace route.

>     Bill

>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Robert & Linda Smith [mailto:Lrsmith@cableone.net]
>         Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:19 AM
>         To: listserv@azgeocaching.com <mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>         Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] GC.com

>         Brian,

>         What an interesting web site.  I have book marked it and will
>         check it from time to time.  Not that I know just what all I
>         am looking at.

>         Do you have a suggestion for a sniffer like you mentioned that
>         will look at the route I am taking when I hook up to someone. 
>         Just interested, a little.  And where does one look up, if
>         possible, the DNS tables??

>         Thank, Bob Smith, Petite Elite

>         Brian - Team A.I. wrote:

>         (snip)

>         Fairbanks, AK router, check
>         http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm.  Basically,
>         the routers you see listed are the mother of all routers and
>         are collectively responsible for the entire N American
>         continent.  I'm guessing the people in Alaska are pretty
>         pissed right about now.

>         DNS:  Domain Name System.  Ever wonder what's behind
>         yahoo.com?  For every single web address on the internet,
>         there is a numerical IP address associated with it.  The
>         primary IP address for yahoo.com is 66.218.71.198.  Would you
>         rather remember yahoo.com or that numerical address?  :)  DNS
>         tables do the job of matching those numbers to their
>         corresponding domain name (yahoo.com).  If a DNS tables
>         becomes 'poisoned', it pretty much means that some corrupt
>         data was inserted into the file and completely scrambled the
>         data, rendering it useless.