On 16 Jun 2004 01:23:47 -0400, (DoN. Nichols)
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email

Just OOI. I get as far as your step 12, and then everything "times
out" even if I set 10000 as a timeout. That's 100% repeatable. So you
get a coupe of steps further than I do!

What do you make of it? As I said OOI.


You could also try a traceroute (if you've got that program in
your system). That could tell you where the connection is failing. It
could be anywhere between your system and theirs. I get as far as the
same class-C block before the traceroute dies, so I suspect that they
have some form of firewall blocking ICMP packets (which traceroute
depends upon).

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12 sl-gw11-orl-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.226) 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms
dead from here on.

13 sl-ciberlynxinc-48-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.59.50) 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms
14 216.242.114.19 (216.242.114.19) 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *