SS5LcAiQRGU7Bv8FwIwfsD5yzI0C!TYXDCcIJsJ83btLTEqDa8Gig8njKjjCNrve   
   wvrRsNfWcjuj6JB76B/PqGX4lCbRH5AK+f7HFmNU!i3CAZBo81gg=   
   properly   
   From: Paul Ratcliffe    
      
   On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:34:12 -0500, John Small  wrote:   
      
   > You have hit one something there. If I do a traceroute on    
   > www22.verizon.com I get 7 hops quite quickly. Then for 8-30 I slowly    
   > get the three asterisks. (I have even used -m 100 and still get three    
   > asterisks for 8-100!)   
   >    
   > What do the three asterisks mean? That a certain host/router is not    
   > responding?   
      
   Yes.... three times.   
      
   > What do consecutive lines of three asterisks mean? That    
   > multiple host/routers are not responding?   
      
   Blimey Batman, your powers of deduction are amazing.   
      
   > Or that one host/router is    
   > not responding over and over again?   
      
   No, there are typically only 3 attempts per hop.   
      
   Some misguided people deliberately disable ICMP because they think it is   
   a "security hazard". It certainly kills any attempts at fault finding.   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
    * Origin: The gateway at Omicron Theta (1:261/20.999)