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" 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
>     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.
>>