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intermediate hop is no indication of upness of the remote host.  uptime
should show you that bit of information.  I'd think that routing would work
around a down intermediate hop unless there is just a string of single hops
and no other way to get to the end host.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starkey [mailto:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:27 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Routing and whether network is down.
> 
> 
> I'm talking to the admin of a few sites I'm working with and she's
> telling me that the site was down based on this:
> 
> > C:\WINDOWS>tracert whatever.com
> >
> > Tracing route to whatever.com [192.41.xx.xx]
> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
> >
> >   1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  CI273185-A [192.168.x.x]
> >   2   <10 ms    14 ms    13 ms  10.71.x.x
> >   3    14 ms   <10 ms    14 ms  bb1-100bt.athen1.ga.home.net
> [24.2.15.1]
> >   4  c1-se10-0.atlnga1.home.net [24.7.73.137]  reports: Destination
> host unreach
> 
> The destination is in CA and she hasn't gotten past GA in the jumps.
> The "Destination host unreachable" is what? The host or the 
> next router?
> If the final destination (the site) was down there'd be an 
> error message
> returned from the last router, not several routers beforehand, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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