[KLUG Members] webmail saga continues! story at 11...

[Adam Williams]

> > My saga of the unworking webmail applications continues.  However, today, I made
> > a strange discovery.
> > I cannot ping www.hotmail.com from ANY computer at my work place.  We all use a
> > proxy for our browers.
> But what does traceroute (tracert on M$) show?  It could be the end-node
> is filtering out ICMP traffic; this is pretty common.
> > I cannot ping www.hotmail.com from the IPcop Box.
> Try traceroute.

I see -

[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.hotmail.com
traceroute: Warning: www.hotmail.com has multiple addresses; using
207.68.172.239
traceroute to www.hotmail.com (207.68.172.239), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
 1  firewall (192.168.3.3)  2.632 ms  2.608 ms  2.468 ms
 2  172.31.255.247 (172.31.255.247)  43.619 ms  24.309 ms  48.756 ms
 3  192.168.24.33 (192.168.24.33)  24.280 ms  39.307 ms  23.625 ms
 4  gigabitethernet8-0-117.ipcolo1.Chicago1.Level3.net (63.208.138.129) 
26.283 ms  23.853 ms  23.140 ms
 5  gigabitethernet5-1.core1.Chicago1.Level3.net (209.244.8.17)  25.729
ms  25.579 ms  28.181 ms
 6  so-4-0-0.bbr2.Chicago1.level3.net (209.247.10.169)  29.871 ms 
25.098 ms  29.015 ms
 7  so-1-0-0.mp2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.10.133)  72.796 ms  72.093
ms  79.441 ms
 8  gig10-2.hsa2.Seattle1.level3.net (209.247.9.94)  72.345 ms  88.609
ms  71.849 ms
 9  unknown.Level3.net (63.211.200.242)  72.301 ms  74.266 ms  72.642 ms
10  pos5-0.tuk2f-gsr-a.us.msn.net (207.68.161.245)  72.001 ms  72.545
ms  72.781 ms
11  vlan805.tuk2f-msfc-2b.us.msn.net (207.68.179.132)  72.244 ms  73.027
ms  72.124 ms
12  * * *
13  * * *

See (11),  I've reached msn, where hotmail actually is.