On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:26:20 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@wlandres.net allegedly wrote:
Greetings all!
I am having trouble connecting to
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
which just hangs indefinitely for me. A traceroute
traceroute oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
proceeds reasonably rapidly down to step 11, which is where it hangs:
Ted
I have no problem reaching that site from here.
Traceroute doesn't really tell you a lot these days. Many routers and/or firewalls en-route to the destination may be set to drop/block UDP or ICMP echo packets without response so traceroute gets confused.
Mick
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