[Gllug] OT: Traceroute

[Ian Baillie]

Thanks to both of you.  It did actually reach 30 hops :-(

Strange though, because I can pick up my mail, so it is reaching the
mail server...

Can anyone explain this?


Ian



On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:00, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Ian Baillie announce to the hordes:
> > 
> > I occasionally have problems with users sending and receiving mail, (on
> > a Mac network).  I collect my mail using Evolution (as I am playing with
> > Suse on my laptop) and ran a trace route to see how many hops it took to
> > get to the mail server (external mail server).
> > 
> > After 11 hops it came up * * *
> > 
> > What does this mean?  Is the host unreachable?
> 
> Not neccecelery...
> It just means that hop is unreachable. It usually continues after that with
> another attempted route.
> 
> Only when you get a long line of those that go all the way up to 30 hops, or
> you get an explicit "host unreachable" is it considered down or isolated.
> 
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