Digital BW, The Print

George Hartzell wrote:
> I spoke to some of my Internet/ISP management friends about this, and
> the most likely explanation seems to be that the Australian ISPs (or
> someone between here and there) are dropping traffic from the
> Verizon/GTE network where Paul has his website.
> 
> The traceroute packet above is probably making it to Paul's server,
> but the return packet is being dropped so you never learn that you
> actually got there.
> 
> Apparently many, many, many verizon's home-based users end up with
> viruses, etc... on their machines and end up wreaking havoc on the
> rest of the net.  This leads to networks black-holing the entire
> address space in self defense....
> 
> If this is indeed the case, there's not much that Paul can do except
> move the server (or the site) to another network.

Thanks George. I am pleased to have that explanation. 

Peter Marquis-Kyle