From: Randall Parker 

John Beckett wrote:
> Randall Parker
>

> wrote in message news::
>> [randall{at}localhost ~]$ traceroute 1.2.3.4
>
> 1.x.x.x is on the bogon list of not-used IP addresses. That is not your
> problem, but a better IP (and one which works and is a DNS server) would
> be 4.2.2.2.
>
> John
>

That's a GTE/Verizon DNS server, isn't it?

Yes, I can get there:

[randall{at}localhost ~]$ traceroute 4.2.2.2 traceroute to 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2),
30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  FVG318 (192.168.1.46)  2.428 ms   4.222 ms   9.874 ms
  2  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  28.859 ms   27.330 ms   35.229 ms
  3  * * *
  4  * * *
  5  * * *
  6  * * *
  7  * * *
  8  * * *
  9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net (4.2.2.2)  77.477 ms   72.217 ms   62.809 ms
[randall{at}localhost ~]$

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