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[Peter Murray]

For those who are Macintosh-enabled, I recommend "WhatRoute".  It can be
found at:

  http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~bryanc/

In addtion to tracerouting, the program does Ping, DNS lookups (a.k.a.
'nslookup'), Finger, and Whois queries.

In the beta version, the author is even trying to do some interesting things
like trace your connection around the world with lines on a graphic.  Most
times it doesn't work, but when it does, it is fascinating.


Peter

--On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 12:50 PM -0800 "Walt Howe" <walthowe at delphi.com>
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.



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