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I kind of like running traceroute to see where my info is stopping n its way from places. It can be fascinating. Currently my route from ILX goes Melbourne, Sydney, LA, NYC, Ealing, Bletchley, Birmingham, Rochdale.

I'm I a very sad man?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

explain?? please.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ealing, Ruislip...wherever next?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ping!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

but like Ealing, Ruislip = the entire universe, there isn't anywhere else?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

traceroute is a little tool that allows you to see where the routers are on the way between. It sens a request with where you want to go and all of the servers report back their ip and domain name along the way. Usually the domain name tells you where the router is.

If you have Mac OS X you can use Network Utility to do a traceroute. In unix/linux just type traceroute server.name at the prompt. Not sure about windows but I'm sure you'd be able to scare up a traceroute util on tucows or somewhere.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ping is far less exciting, gareth. infact ping is probably the most boring of the lot even finger has more charms.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly its disabled on more and more servers these days.

I believe traceroute is standard on win2k now days, though it operates in a different method then Linux.

ping is far less exciting, gareth. infact ping is probably the most boring of the lot even finger has more charms.

Thats crazy talk. One of the ways of using traceroute is based on successive pings.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

why would they want to spoil my fun?

my last one to ilx took a mysterious detour LA-Sacremento-LA

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Even fewer people seem to do finger(d) anymore which is a great shame. I shall make a point of setting it up on the house server when I get round to that.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

debug ip packet

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

empty crisp packet

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just get so used to w or who on servers I forget about finger/whois.

Traceroute is indeed fun, much more fun when you get one of those programs that will plot it on a map for you.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Where can I get one of those programmes?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I got mine from tucows back in the day.

http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/neoworx/default.asp
NeoTrace Pro Internet tracing utility has become McAfee Visual Trace.

Wow, I guess its not shareware anymore. As far as I remeber it was an early version of Neotrace.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://download.com.com/3000-2172-7139158.html
http://download.com.com/3150-2172-0.html?tag=stbc.gp
should work me hopes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

but like Ealing, Ruislip = the entire universe, there isn't anywhere else?

There's Edgware, but that might just be an "urban" myth.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

tracer oute

― ken chulido (ken c), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I chuckled.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

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