"Flemming Torp" fletopkanelbolle2rp.danmark wrote in
:

home.maine.rr.com

Flemming. Bring up your MSDOS (or whatever XP calls it now) window and
type in:

tracert home.maine.rr.com

you should see something like this:

Tracing route to home.maine.rr.com [154.6.66.43]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 15 ms 16 ms 17 ms 69.73.126.1
3 17 ms 13 ms 16 ms 24.214.0.178
4 13 ms 18 ms 15 ms ge.0-1-0.cr-Char.SC.knology.net
[24.96.110.57]
5 29 ms 27 ms 29 ms so.2-1-1.cr-Atla.GA.US.knology.net
[24.214.0.5]

6 25 ms 328 ms 30 ms unknown.Level3.net [63.211.121.5]
7 28 ms 26 ms 27 ms so-0-3-0.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net
[4.68.96.9]
8 26 ms 30 ms 25 ms ge-11-0.hsa1.Atlanta1.Level3.net
[4.68.103.36]
9 27 ms 25 ms 29 ms s0.homecom.bbnplanet.net [4.24.209.50]
10 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms home.maine.rr.com [154.6.66.43]

Trace complete.

If it goes berserk with lots of * showing a broken link, just let it keep
trying. His webpage on RoadRunner in Maine works great and you can see my
link to it is also good from South Carolina. Let's see where the link
between your computer and his webpage is broken.

It is also very helpful if you copy the trace and send it to your internet
provider to help their network people get the problem fixed from their
upstream providers.

If that trace fails to start at all, the problem is in your internet
provider's DNS, the server that converts home.maine.rr.com into the IP
address 154.6.66.43 for your computer to all it. Computers only call IP
addresses and if the server can't find it, it'll just dead end or tell you
it doesn't exist. If the first trace fails try:

tracert 154.6.66.43

If that trace does work, contact your internet provider and tell them their
DNS server is having a bad day and to please refresh his DNS data.

Danmark isn't China. I don't think your socialists have anything
blocked...(c;

"Flemming Torp" fletopkanelbolle2rp.danmark wrote in
:

Thank you - both working! But still no answer on
http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Articles.htm ??


Still curious, I looked at the header in your message and the idiots
running tele.dk are posting your own IP address in every one of your
messages (62.252.180.211) for the krackers to attack.

I did a trace to your house using Sam Spade, a free internet traffic tool
from www.samspade.org which is much more sophisticated than Windows' awful
tool. You can download it free if you like. From the trace below, you can
see the path from my network in South Carolina, USA to your house. Steps 6
through 10 give no response to Sam's pings, but DO work as the traces in
the path below them are responding through them fine. The provider just
has his ping response turned off because there are several worms attacking
with pings on the internet this year. Ours was all turned off for months.
Step 21, at the bottom of the trace is YOU, your computer!...(c;

The 170 millisecond time your system responds to my pings is quite
respectable for Europe. Tele.dk has a long network between tascali.net,
their upstream internet provider, and your home, steps 13 through 21.

I bet you won't get a response to the tracert home.maine.rr.com in my
previous method. This would indicate their DNS server is hosed...not
working properly. I bet if you access the troublesome webpage with:

http://154.6.66.43/rlma/Articles.htm

instead, you will see this webpage fine. 154.6.66.43 is the IP address of
this web server, according to my DNS server. See if this webpage
responds....(c;

Boat stuff isn't all I like to play with....(c;

06/08/05 20:14:57 Fast traceroute 62.242.180.211
Trace 62.242.180.211 ...
1 192.168.0.1 1ms 1ms 1ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
2 69.73.126.1 14ms 15ms 13ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
3 24.214.0.178 13ms 15ms 13ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
4 24.96.110.57 12ms 15ms 14ms TTL: 0 (ge.0-1-0.cr-
Char.SC.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
5 24.214.0.5 25ms 24ms 26ms TTL: 0 (so.2-1-1.cr-
Atla.GA.US.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
6 No Response * * *
7 No Response * * *
8 No Response * * *
9 No Response * * *
10 No Response * * *
11 213.200.66.121 45ms 41ms 42ms TTL: 0 (ge-4-0-
4.was10.ip.tiscali.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
12 213.200.81.101 112ms 113ms 111ms TTL: 0 (so-4-0-
0.lon12.ip.tiscali.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
13 195.66.224.64 129ms 129ms 129ms TTL: 0 (ge1-
0.1000M.ldn2nxg1.ip.tele.dk ok)
14 80.63.82.6 130ms 133ms 127ms TTL: 0 (pos5-
0.2488M.ldn2nxg2.ip.tele.dk ok)
15 195.249.2.41 135ms 132ms 228ms TTL: 0 (pos4-
0.2488M.ffm2nxg1.ip.tele.dk ok)
16 195.249.14.50 161ms 161ms 164ms TTL: 0 (pos0-
0.2488M.ffm2nxg2.ip.tele.dk ok)
17 80.63.82.14 165ms 163ms 163ms TTL: 0 (so-1-3-
0.2488M.albnxu1.ip.tele.dk ok)
18 80.63.80.122 163ms 163ms 163ms TTL: 0 (pos3-
0.2488M.virnxg1.ip.tele.dk ok)
19 83.88.13.110 162ms 161ms 162ms TTL: 0 (pos0-
0.622M.virnxg4.ip.tele.dk ok)
20 83.88.7.149 161ms 163ms 163ms TTL: 0 (fe0-0-
40.100M.virnxx14.ip.tele.dk ok)
21 62.242.180.211 178ms 178ms 179ms TTL:235 (cpe.atm2-0-
112315.0x3ef2b4d3.virnxx14.customer.tele.dk ok)

I bet you won't get a response to the tracert home.maine.rr.com in
my
previous method. This would indicate their DNS server is
hosed...not
working properly.


Pretty good sluthing, Larry. I'm suddenly having some intermittent
trouble bringing up my own page and others from here. Road Runner has
generally been rock solid and has the best technical support I've ever
encountered but they to have occasional hiccups.

--

Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Pretty good sluthing, Larry. I'm suddenly having some intermittent
trouble bringing up my own page and others from here. Road Runner has
generally been rock solid and has the best technical support I've ever
encountered but they to have occasional hiccups.



I have several friends on RR in Summerville, SC, just up from Charleston, a
suburb. Time-Warner owns the cable company in Summerville. Your
experience matches theirs. Their local installers have no clue, but the
service works quite well, once you get it running.

I'm very lucky to have access to two cable companies, Comcrap and Knology,
here. Comcrap isn't an issue with 2G/month Usenet limit. How awful.
Knology is a brand new, all fiber to the neighborhood, even offering cable
telephone. It's been down 3 minutes in 3 years, now. Amazing service from
a cable company. The local reps are very knowledgeable and helpful. I
only buy internet $55/mo from them. I don't pay anyone to watch
advertising (TV) and cut the wires on telephone many years ago. Noone
needs a home phone with cellular, now. One of life's pleasures was calling
Bell$outh and asking them to come remove all their wires from my
house...(c;

Unfortunately, RR seems to have idiots running usenet, too. Your IP,
24.198.203.135, is in your header. I assume nyroc is Rochester from your
name server lookup. Your firewall is working fine, no pings. From Knology
to your UBR06 node is really fast between us...(c;

06/09/05 08:13:40 Fast traceroute 24.198.203.135
Trace 24.198.203.135 ...
1 192.168.0.1 1ms 1ms 1ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
2 69.73.126.1 15ms 12ms 17ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
3 24.214.0.178 14ms 15ms 13ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
4 24.96.110.57 19ms 14ms 13ms TTL: 0 (ge.0-1-0.cr-
Char.SC.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
5 24.214.0.5 26ms 27ms 25ms TTL: 0 (so.2-1-1.cr-
Atla.GA.US.knology.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
6 63.211.121.5 27ms 26ms 25ms TTL: 0 (unknown.Level3.net
fraudulent rDNS)
7 4.68.103.65 25ms 27ms 27ms TTL: 0 (ae-1-
53.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net ok)
8 209.247.8.69 42ms 43ms 45ms TTL: 0 (so-1-0-
0.mp1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net ok)
9 209.247.9.254 43ms 45ms 47ms TTL: 0 (so-7-0-
0.gar1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net ok)
10 4.78.148.2 72ms 53ms 55ms TTL: 0
(ROADRUNNER.gar1.Level3.net ok)
11 24.92.224.202 71ms 72ms 67ms TTL: 0 (rdc-24-92-224-
202.nyroc.rr.com ok)
12 24.25.160.137 67ms 72ms 70ms TTL: 0 (gig0-3.ptldmeptl-
ubr06.nyroc.rr.com ok)
13 No Response * * *
^^^^^^^^^^^ nice firewall...(c;

I appreciate the comments on the firewall. I've worked hard to lock
this machine down after my early experience. Soon after hooking up to
always on broadband, with Zone Alarm as my only defense, the machine
got very, very slow. I defragged the hard disk and tried all sorts of
other things. Cable was almost as slow as dial up.

Then, Zone Alarm popped up a program I'd never seen before. It did
some checking and figured out that it wanted to look in my internet
temporary files. I also found my previously 15% utilized hard disk
full. I looked and found gigs of porno movies stashed on my disk,
child porno and other really bad stuff. Someone had turned my machine
into a server for their filth. I got religion and a hardware firewall
backed up by software. I also made a text editor the default program
for running all scripts and similar programs.

Oops, I just broke my pledge to stay on topic.

BTW, the boat just went in the water today. Look for post and
pictures later.

--

Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Zone Alarm

Zone Alarm, or any other program running UNDER the Swiss Cheeze operating
system (Windoze) is useless, in reality. It keeps popping up those panic
windows to keep you hooked up to its owners....or their spammers in some
cases...

If you want to be safe? Put a net safe router between the broadband modem
and the Swiss Cheeze operating system. Then "they" can't really get at it,
because they have no hole into the operating system, unless the worm
running in your machine opens a hole in the router....

You can do a lot to protect yourself there, too. The worst one is Outlook
or Outlook Express, the target email client of every cracker in the world.
As it is PART of the operating system, directly connected to the other
target, Internet Explorer, by design to give the spammers access to every
private piece of data on your system, you can stop all this madness by
getting rid of it....for free! Download and use Pegasus from David Harris
in New Zealand. http://www.pmail.com/ Pegasus is one of the oldest email
clients on the net.....and not connected to anything. It won't run the
worms or even open the spammers' email bombs unless YOU tell it to. The
worms are pretty easy to stop. Open Control Panel and uninstall pieces of
Windows' spammer controls.... Email worms run under Visual Basic
Scripting, a little operating system Billy puts in Windoze so the companies
can take control of your system without your permission. No VBS, No
control, no .vbs worms can run. We don't tell you about it, of course,
because "we" want to control you. Billy calls it "Windows Scripting Host"
under ol' Win98/95/ME but has further obscured the name in XP, I think.
It's one of Windows' "accessories". While we're uninstalling the crapware,
ActiveX and Javascript, two more "controls" webpages use to take over your
system, can be uninstalled or disabled. Java, itself, has long been
hacked. Without access to YOUR controls, many webpages will simply refuse
to give you access. Do you really need to give them control just to look
at their content or shop at their online stores? I think NOT.

Once you've gotten rid of these 4 dangerous items, browsing becomes safer.
I like Norton Anti Virus, with a paid-for subscription, to have some really
smart hackers on my side of the fence. You don't need the firewall, now
that you have a fully-functional ROUTER firewall protecting the whole
machine. Antivirus protects you from downloading some nasties from Usenet
or .exe/bat/com/etc. files someone you probably know who has an infected
machine will send you without even knowing about it. Their installed virus
uses THEIR Outlook Express address book with YOUR email address in it to
propagate a virus email with their own headers. NAV protects from
thousands of these. (www.symantec.com) It's worth the price....

The spam/spyware has two free tools that work great. Ad Aware Standard
edition will rid you of most of them. Spybot will scrape the other crap
off your Windows Registry, the directory used to tell Windows what it can
do. I don't recommend using Spybot, wholesale. Sometimes it cleans so
well it cleans stuff Windows expects to find....your system won't boot if
you're not very careful.

Get the router.....Zone Alarm is near worthless.... I like Netgear's
routers over Linksys. I have both. Somewhere behind my desk, hanging by
its wires, is a Netgear RP-114 router that has worked perfect since I first
turned it on several years ago. I can probably find it if I crawl around
back there. It used to be on my desk....????? I know it's working because
it read your message...(c;

Drive safe on the net. Oh, Usenet. I like Xnews from xnews.newsguy.com,
not because it's some wonderful system, but because it downloads usenet
binaries in any format for months without crashing even Windoze. I'm
typing on it, now....

Excellent advice to all. I think you missed the (not very obvious)
point above that I have the router, Norton, and all the other stuff
you mention. So far, I haven't had anything get in although I do run
Outlook Express. VBS scripts and anything like that just pop up in
Notepad and give me a chance to decide if I want to run them.

--

Roger Long



"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Zone Alarm

Zone Alarm, or any other program running UNDER the Swiss Cheeze
operating
system (Windoze) is useless, in reality. It keeps popping up those
panic
windows to keep you hooked up to its owners....or their spammers in
some
cases...

If you want to be safe? Put a net safe router between the broadband
modem
and the Swiss Cheeze operating system. Then "they" can't really get
at it,
because they have no hole into the operating system, unless the worm
running in your machine opens a hole in the router....

You can do a lot to protect yourself there, too. The worst one is
Outlook
or Outlook Express, the target email client of every cracker in the
world.
As it is PART of the operating system, directly connected to the
other
target, Internet Explorer, by design to give the spammers access to
every
private piece of data on your system, you can stop all this madness
by
getting rid of it....for free! Download and use Pegasus from David
Harris
in New Zealand. http://www.pmail.com/ Pegasus is one of the oldest
email
clients on the net.....and not connected to anything. It won't run
the
worms or even open the spammers' email bombs unless YOU tell it to.
The
worms are pretty easy to stop. Open Control Panel and uninstall
pieces of
Windows' spammer controls.... Email worms run under Visual Basic
Scripting, a little operating system Billy puts in Windoze so the
companies
can take control of your system without your permission. No VBS, No
control, no .vbs worms can run. We don't tell you about it, of
course,
because "we" want to control you. Billy calls it "Windows Scripting
Host"
under ol' Win98/95/ME but has further obscured the name in XP, I
think.
It's one of Windows' "accessories". While we're uninstalling the
crapware,
ActiveX and Javascript, two more "controls" webpages use to take
over your
system, can be uninstalled or disabled. Java, itself, has long been
hacked. Without access to YOUR controls, many webpages will simply
refuse
to give you access. Do you really need to give them control just to
look
at their content or shop at their online stores? I think NOT.

Once you've gotten rid of these 4 dangerous items, browsing becomes
safer.
I like Norton Anti Virus, with a paid-for subscription, to have some
really
smart hackers on my side of the fence. You don't need the firewall,
now
that you have a fully-functional ROUTER firewall protecting the
whole
machine. Antivirus protects you from downloading some nasties from
Usenet
or .exe/bat/com/etc. files someone you probably know who has an
infected
machine will send you without even knowing about it. Their
installed virus
uses THEIR Outlook Express address book with YOUR email address in
it to
propagate a virus email with their own headers. NAV protects from
thousands of these. (www.symantec.com) It's worth the price....

The spam/spyware has two free tools that work great. Ad Aware
Standard
edition will rid you of most of them. Spybot will scrape the other
crap
off your Windows Registry, the directory used to tell Windows what
it can
do. I don't recommend using Spybot, wholesale. Sometimes it cleans
so
well it cleans stuff Windows expects to find....your system won't
boot if
you're not very careful.

Get the router.....Zone Alarm is near worthless.... I like
Netgear's
routers over Linksys. I have both. Somewhere behind my desk,
hanging by
its wires, is a Netgear RP-114 router that has worked perfect since
I first
turned it on several years ago. I can probably find it if I crawl
around
back there. It used to be on my desk....????? I know it's working
because
it read your message...(c;

Drive safe on the net. Oh, Usenet. I like Xnews from
xnews.newsguy.com,
not because it's some wonderful system, but because it downloads
usenet
binaries in any format for months without crashing even Windoze.
I'm
typing on it, now....

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Outlook Express

Every time I see that typed I get chills. I find it something like
standing in a RED Santa suit in a bullring waving my arms up and down....or
wearing a sign that says, "KICK ME HARD!" in a biker bar.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.