From: Randall Parker 

Geo wrote:
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:44c58fb9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I tried two random addresses. One of them went further. It happens to be
>> an address from Verizon and I'm on Verizon DSL. Coincidence?
>
> That's TOO weird. It has to be a firewall setting or something.

On the WinXP Home machine the tracert.exe command turns up stars on every
line. So it does worse than Linux's traceroute. It even turns up stars for
www.google.com and for the 9.8.7.9 address that works best on my Linux box.

>
> Try
>
> traceroute www.google.com

Well this is weird:

[randall{at}localhost ~]$ traceroute 9.8.7.9 traceroute to 9.8.7.9 (9.8.7.9),
30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  FVG318 (192.168.1.46)  3.040 ms   5.688 ms   2.894 ms
  2  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  35.231 ms   19.531 ms   18.847 ms
  3  * * *
  4  P0-1.LCR-01.SNLOCA.verizon-gni.net (130.81.34.132)(H!)  65.437 ms * *
[randall{at}localhost ~]$ traceroute www.google.com traceroute to
www.google.com (66.102.7.147), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  FVG318 (192.168.1.46)  23.340 ms   19.600 ms   15.610 ms
  2  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  23.368 ms   33.232 ms   29.184 ms
  3  * * *
  4  * * *
  5  * * *
  6  * * *
  7  * * *
  8  * * *
  9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  66.102.7.147 (66.102.7.147)  68.823 ms   64.835 ms   60.895 ms
[randall{at}localhost ~]$

Why'd it succeed on the last hop?

>
> and see what you get.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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