Ian A Finlay just mooed:
I wonder what's up?
bash-2.04$ traceroute windowsupdate.microsoft.com traceroute to windowsupdate.microsoft.com (207.68.131.27), 30 hops max, 40 [...] 8 POS6-0.GW4.DCA8.ALTER.NET (152.63.35.197) 14.747 ms 13.515 ms 12.878 ms 9 65.195.34.226 (65.195.34.226) 653.529 ms 709.526 ms 702.782 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * *
Um, it's firewalled? Most of microsoft isn't traceroutable or pingable. 173 eep:~> telnet windowsupdate.microsoft.com 80 Trying 207.68.131.27... Connected to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK ... -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/