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[Walt Howe]

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
>