Verizon Fios cannot connect me to lavra.spb.ru This is the Russian site of the second most important monastery in Russia. It is reachable from Boston avra.spb.ru (91.218.229.131), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) 2.293 ms 0.815 ms 0.764 ms 2 100.64.0.129 (100.64.0.129) 1.108 ms 3.013 ms 1.068 ms 3 10.16.28.1 (10.16.28.1) 1.411 ms 1.277 ms 1.068 ms 4 10.16.13.1 (10.16.13.1) 4.796 ms 2.301 ms 5.207 ms 5 69.46.226.129.lightower.net (69.46.226.129) 4.380 ms 3.138 ms 4.630 ms 6 ae2.bstpmallj42.lightower.net (64.72.64.113) 3.768 ms 6.008 ms 3.888 ms 7 xe-4-0-2.bar2.boston1.level3.net (4.53.56.153) 6.030 ms 4.890 ms 7.058 ms 8 ae-231-3607.edge4.london1.level3.net (4.69.166.25) 91.525 ms 81.571 ms ae-232-3608.edge4.london1.level3.net (4.69.166.29) 81.327 ms 9 ae-231-3607.edge4.london1.level3.net (4.69.166.25) 78.121 ms ae-232-3608.edge4.london1.level3.net (4.69.166.29) 79.734 ms 78.890 ms 10 195.50.122.186 (195.50.122.186) 173.491 ms 133.054 ms 198.495 ms 11 * * * 12 oversun-gw.transtelecom.net (217.150.54.25) 210.399 ms 138.519 ms 139.291 ms 13 mr-o-rtc1-rsw-2.oversun.ru (94.198.48.154) 131.070 ms 131.007 ms 129.553 ms 14 mr-o-rtc5-rsw-2.oversun.ru (94.198.48.110) 140.012 ms 208.023 ms 145.352 ms 15 vip-h5.ihc-ru.net (91.218.229.131) 131.485 ms 133.319 ms 129.822 ms and from comcast and other locations apparently it has v6 routing info as well ..someone much more knowledgable than i suggested that this can be a source of reachability problems but here is what happens on my machine ordons-mac-pro:~ gordoncook$ traceroute lavra.spb.ru traceroute to lavra.spb.ru (92.242.140.21), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 wireless_broadband_router (192.168.1.1) 0.654 ms 0.351 ms 0.295 ms 2 l100.cmdnnj-vfttp-26.verizon-gni.net (98.110.50.1) 4.607 ms 4.326 ms 7.869 ms 3 g0-1-0-0.cmdnnj-lcr-22.verizon-gni.net (130.81.223.100) 12.172 ms 9.502 ms 7.242 ms 4 xe-9-1-6-0.ny5030-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.199.226) 15.080 ms xe-9-1-2-0.ny5030-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.144) 8.986 ms xe-4-1-8-0.ny5030-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.209.84) 22.085 ms 5 * * * 6 0.ae1.br2.nyc4.alter.net (140.222.229.91) 79.467 ms 77.046 ms 74.729 ms 7 204.255.168.114 (204.255.168.114) 85.591 ms 86.899 ms 204.255.168.110 (204.255.168.110) 87.011 ms 8 be2061.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.69) 96.323 ms be2060.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.9) 84.779 ms be2061.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.69) 85.063 ms 9 be2482.ccr21.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.27.157) 31.562 ms 31.990 ms be2483.ccr22.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.29.201) 27.548 ms 10 be2351.ccr41.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.85) 37.087 ms be2185.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.43.177) 42.273 ms be2351.ccr41.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.85) 39.590 ms 11 be2157.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.117) 49.793 ms be2156.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.85) 50.583 ms be2157.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.117) 49.492 ms 12 be2133.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.65) 77.446 ms be2132.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.53) 77.060 ms be2133.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.65) 77.001 ms 13 be2164.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.34) 74.999 ms 74.569 ms be2165.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.66) 74.852 ms 14 be2063.rcr21.b001848-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.162) 74.377 ms be2095.rcr21.b001848-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.138) 77.126 ms 89.476 ms 15 c1.sj.mpt.fiberinternetcenter.net (66.201.58.2) 82.483 ms 86.964 ms 80.094 ms 16 sanjose2.barefruit.co.uk (66.201.32.134) 125.112 ms 106.932 ms 124.778 ms 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * * 31 * * * 32 * * * 33 * * * 34 * * * 35 * * * 36 * * * 37 * * * 38 * * * 39 * * * 40 * unallocated.barefruit.co.uk (92.242.140.21) 111.898 ms * gordons-mac-pro:~ gordoncook$ PS: my FIOS contract is up in april. Any suggestion of how to avoid a $30 per month price increase would be greatly appreciated OFF list of course many thanks Gordon Cook COOK Report on Internet Protocol