[vox-tech] Why I'll Never Be a Network Admin Guy

[Joel Baumert]

Pacbell has been hosed... I have been seeing circular routes all
day.

try:

traceroute www.ibm.com

You will probably see it bounce back and forth between two routers and
give up.

Joel

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:22:56PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> My wife's domain, jenipurr.com, is having odd issues today.  Of course,
> the first thing I did was ping the domain to see if I could do any
> trouble shooting.  This is what I got:
> 
> >From dist2-vlan10.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.3): Time to live exceeded
> >From dist2-vlan10.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.3): Time to live exceeded
> >From dist2-vlan10.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.3): Time to live exceeded
> 
> ...and so on.
> 
> What, exactly, does this error mean?  I've checked with our hosting
> service and with register.com (I can't seem to connect to the whois
> database today), and her domain registration appears to be valid for
> another nine years or so.
> 
> So what does "Time to live exceeded" mean?
> 
> -- 
> Slainte,
> Richard S. Crawford
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