Net outage?

[Bill Jonas]

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:24:51PM -0500, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> I could not reach www.cypress.com, slashdot.org, newsforge.com,
> www.foxnews.com.  Trace routes to these servers gets a ways and then times
> out.  Anyone else seeing this?

I, too, could not traceroute to any of the above sites.  Establishing a
TCP connection on port 80, however, worked just fine.

Don't sweat it.  They just don't return ICMP packets.  (Most common
reason given: "Security.")

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Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
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