I'm interested! please show me the URL 
You know out of all the Hardware/Software/Windows/Spyware; IP configuration interests me the most (possible because I have so much to learn)
But back to my point. Isn't this router issue, locally ?[/QUOTE]
tracert uses the ping technique. The firewall or router ALLOWS or DENYS ping
data, regardless of the IP address. Therefore, if you can get a ping reply with
timing from one site, you can get it from ALL sites
Getting a ping reply only says that a) the system is running,
b) the interface is allowing ping replies. It does not say that the webserver is running
and serving webpages on port 80.
Sometimes our browsers get fouled up and misbehave -- so I'll show you how to
prove a webserver IS serving pages.
(for concrete, repeatable results, let's use
www.google.com as the target site)
1- find out if the system is running; ping
www.google.com
you should get four replies with timing info:
Code:
Reply from 74.125.19.99: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=243
2- access the site without a browser
Code:
get a command prompt (run->cmd)
(blue lines are what you enter and green lines are what you get back)
enter the following exactly
[INDENT]
[COLOR="Blue"]telnet www.google.com 80[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Green"]Trying 74.125.19.103...
Connected to www.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]GET / HTTP/1.0
<enter key without any data>[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Green"]HTTP/1.0 200 OK [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]<<< the server produced a page[/COLOR]
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=f3d4254c98c805c7:TM=1205352574:LM=1205352574:S=dH-5lezK1Lm0t
KWm; expires=Fri, 12-Mar-2010 20:09:34 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: gws
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:09:34 GMT
Connection: Close
(and a bunch of html deleted for brevity)
[/COLOR]
[/INDENT]
[/CODE]
[/INDENT]
so I attempted to access your site:
[CODE]
$[COLOR="Blue"] telnet 208.65.158.130 80[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Green"]Trying 208.65.158.130...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: [COLOR="Red"]Connection refused[/COLOR][/COLOR]
[/CODE]
[COLOR="Red"]The server located at 208.65.158.130 is not running![/COLOR]
My firewall shows the access to the site (so it's not blocking port 80)
Test#2
[B]I forced the firewall to block this IP address on port 80[/B]
[CODE]$ telnet 74.125.19.99 80
Trying 74.125.19.99...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: [COLOR="Red"]Connection timed out[/COLOR][/CODE]
[B]Notice a blocked site gets a timeout, a non-running site gets Connection Refused[/B]
