Digital BW, The Print

Peter Marquis-Kyle writes:

> For me, it's not an occasional problem. I have not been able to to get
> to www.paulroark.com for at least six months.

For what it's worth, I just tried accessing the site (from Paris,
France), and it came up instantly.

> Does anyone here understand how the DNS system works?

I do.

> What does this tracert report tell us?:

It tells you the different nodes through which your connection to
another site passes, although with the delays involved in getting to
each consecutive node.  For some reason, in your case, the connection
isn't getting past the node at hop number 16 (gigchannel9 ...), which is
a node in Texas belonging to Verizon (a major Internet provider).

When I access the site, my path takes a much more direct route, with
a much smaller delay than the one you are seeing at the far end.  Since
I can reach the site and you cannot, chances are that it's not Paul's
site that has the problem, but some other link between you and his site
(most likely the Verizon link at which your traceroute stops).  If it
has been this way for six months, there's probably a configuration
problem somewhere in the network.

  -- Anthony