In a previous message, Michael Dillon wrote:
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One thing that would help diagnose the true source of the problem with less human interaction required (avoiding voicemail and all that) would be wider public access to traceroutes beginning at key sites. There is a group of ISP's who make CGI-based traceroutes available from their sites at http://amazing.netaxs.com/internet/club-traceroute.html
In this instance, it would have helped if the Internic had a CGI traceroute available from their site but I think it would also be a nice thing if the major NSP's would make this same kind of facility available from their exchange points.
FWIW, Digex has such an animal which appears to run commands on their routers at MAE-E, MAE-W, and the Sprint NAP: <http://nitrous.digex.net/> -- David Carmean WB6YZM DC574 <dlc@silcom.com> System/Network Administration, Silicon Beach Communications Unsolicited commercial e-mail not accepted. Violators will be LARTed.