For Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>

For Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>

[Robert J. Chassell]

[[Sorry to bother the rest of you but this is the only way I can send
a message to Nic!]]

    That's odd.

    I've set you up an account on my server so that we can establish
    contact. ssh to 80.168.156.73 and use:  ....

SSH failed, much to my surprise since I use it often.  Here are the
results of the `host', `dig', and `ping' commands:

    # host tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk
    tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk        A       80.168.156.73

    # host -v -G -S -C -A -L 1 tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk
    Finding nameservers for tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk ...
    Query failed, 0 answers, authoritative status: no error
    tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk has no NS record (Authoritative answer)
    No nameservers for tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk found

     # dig  tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk

    ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc4 <<>> tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk
    ;; global options:  printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1637
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk.      IN      A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk. 399929 IN     A       80.168.156.73

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    tapsellferrier.co.uk.   443159  IN      NS      owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk.
    tapsellferrier.co.uk.   443159  IN      NS      owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk.

    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk. 443159 IN A    80.168.156.77
    owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk. 443159 IN A     80.168.156.78

    ;; Query time: 300 msec
    ;; SERVER: 206.72.196.10#53(206.72.196.10)
    ;; WHEN: Thu Dec  4 18:19:31 2003
    ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 159


     # ping tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk
    PING tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk (80.168.156.73) 56(84) bytes of data.

    --- tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk ping statistics ---
    5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4017ms

     # ping 80.168.156.73
    PING 80.168.156.73 (80.168.156.73) 56(84) bytes of data.

    --- 80.168.156.73 ping statistics ---
    5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4018ms

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.teak.cc                             bob@rattlesnake.com

For Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>

[Robert J. Chassell]

[[Sorry to bother the rest of you but this is still the only way I can
send a message to Nic!]]

    ... here is the traceroute that I did from tf1 to your mx.

Unfortunately, `traceroute' from my end is failing near you.  I don't
know why this is:

$ date && host kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk
Fri Dec  5 14:10:21 UTC 2003
kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk does not exist (Authoritative answer)

$ host tapsellferrier.co.uk
tapsellferrier.co.uk A record currently not present

$ traceroute kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk
traceroute: unknown host kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk

$ traceroute tapsellferrier.co.uk
traceroute: unknown host tapsellferrier.co.uk

$ traceroute 80.168.156.65
traceroute to 80.168.156.65 (80.168.156.65), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  pm3_4.berkshire.net (140.186.114.5)  194.635 ms  199.357 ms  189.864 ms
 2  gw1-ether0.qcy.berkshire.net (140.186.114.1)  189.344 ms  189.678 ms  189.893 ms
 3  link75-57.cent.net (199.232.75.57)  189.364 ms  189.605 ms  189.704 ms
 4  ash-m20-at0-2-0.gnaps.net (199.232.44.53)  199.892 ms  199.671 ms  199.816 ms
 5  ge-2-3-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (206.223.115.112)  199.553 ms  199.538 ms  199.665 ms
 6  p16-1-0-0.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.82)  219.676 ms  209.613 ms  221.719 ms
 7  p16-3-0-0.r80.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.39)  220.341 ms  209.345 ms  211.876 ms
 8  p16-3-0-0.r01.amstnl02.nl.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.86)  287.490 ms  289.636 ms  293.201 ms
 9  p4-1-3-0.r00.amstnl02.nl.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.132)  286.498 ms  289.937 ms  292.334 ms
10  p4-0-1-0.r00.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.50)  297.604 ms  300.061 ms  299.829 ms
11  ge-1-1.a01.londen03.uk.ra.verio.net (213.130.47.67)  311.075 ms  300.412 ms  299.454 ms
12  claranet-0.a01.londen03.uk.ra.verio.net (213.130.48.134)  291.941 ms  288.017 ms  289.937 ms
13  t6-cr1-ge-2-1.router.uk.clara.net (213.253.16.79)  289.911 ms  288.741 ms  289.949 ms
14  t6-sms1-claranet-delivery.router.clara.net (195.8.86.66)  289.918 ms  289.967 ms  289.902 ms
15  * * *