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[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

I've used a program called NetLab.  Its quite friendly and allows
you to do traceroutes, pings, and just about anything else you
can imagine, including quote and whois.

Its available from www.shareware.com.

-vsd

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Walt Howe wrote:

> Learn to use a traceroute utility. It will show you each of the hops along
> the route to the site you are trying to connect to, and at which point the
> connection fails. If you use Win 95, there is a DOS utility built in:
> tracert.exe in the C:\windows directory. For any other operating system,
> there are freeware utilities readily available. You can run a command like
> this:
> 
>    tracert www.yahoo.com
> 
> This example will show you the path between you and yahoo.com step by step
> and how long it takes to connect to each step.
> 
>   Walt Howe <http://people.delphi.com/walthowe/>
> 
> 
> At 09:43 AM 1/16/1998 -0800, Katherine Kendall wrote:
> >Dear Web4libbers,
> >	Friday morning 16th I was doing a demonstration of search
> >engines to media specialists from the local schools.  I couldn't
> >get into a single one!  My director was having a terrible time
> >sending email.  We decided the Internet was greying out somewhere.
> >
> >Is there a site that gives up-to-date traffic reports on the Internet?
> >We managed to work around it, and of course all the commercial sites
> >like Netscape popped right up.  It might be a useful service for some
> >enterprising commercial site to provide. Regional crashes (weather,
> >backhoes, overloads), national and international tie-ups, etc, sort of
> >like an Internet weather report. 
> >
> >Kathy Kendall
> >mailto:kk at harborcom.net
> >
>