[KLUG Members] Traceroute (print out)

[Adam Williams]

> So Bill is using some kind of firewall service that prevents his server
> from getting pinged!! Unless of course if you ping him just when the
> server reboots. More than likely, the firewall will initialize after
> the "windows GUI" kicks in. Try another domain like google.com and see
> if u get the same results- I'm thinking not.

With a "real" network like MSN your ICMP traffic is filtered out
probably by something like a Cisco Catalyst or Lightstream long before
it gets anywhere near the server.  Site like hotmail, google, etc... are
not "a box", but a distributed cluster.