ml>RW> BTW, is your system down all of the time? Or just when mine is
ml>RW> attempting to send you mail? Ping log from just a few minutes ago.
 
ml> ping sucks for diagnostics... use traceroute but understand that, like
ml> ping, not all systems will respond... traceroute will get you responses
ml> from systems in the path whereas ping doesn't and so doesn't give any
ml> idea where the breakage may be...
 
From personal experience, I have to disagree with the above about TRACERT.
In October of 2010 when everybody was having trouble with a direct connect
to me, in every instance I had various people running that program and it
ALWAYS hung at the same locale in the path to here.  When I informed the $5
per hour geniuses at AT&T what that address was and how often the
traces stopped there, I must have been (finally) speaking to someone with a
modicum of intellect because by the end of that month, the problem went
away.  I think some of you may remember that.  Those of you who do, let me
just say I couldn't have done it without you.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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