On Wednesday 15 August 2001 11:04 pm, you wrote: > http://slashdot.{org,com} appear to have problems responding to > traceroutes, but only after leaving *.ip.att.net on routes owned by > "exodus.net" (starting at hop 14, see http://www.exodus.net for details). > Presently slashdot.org is NOT responding to pings and traceroutes never > resolve, all due to a problem somewhere within exodus.net. Actuly, if you recall back to when slashdot when down, they told alittle about their network setup. One of the things the mentioned was their firewall eats pings (they block those types of ICMP packets or something). Because of that you should NEVER be able to ping them. That dosnt mean they are a dead- it just means you cant ping them. Traceroute uses the ping ICMP packets, so it would make sence it wouldnt resolve either -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com Some people's mouths work faster than their brains. They say things they haven't even thought of yet.