Tracert Says www.pcworld.com Not Reachable

These days, ping and traceroute (tracert) are often useless because security-concious network admins block the ICMP messages that they use.

From: "Shel"

| I use Firefox and have been unable to connect to the PC World website. | | When I run Tracert to

the last line says "Destination | net unreachable.". But I know that the site is up and running. | | Any suggestions or ideas of what might be wrong will be appreciated. | Is it a DSL problem?

If you can't use http to connect then you have a routing problem with your ISP.

The site is reachable via http but not via a ping or performing a TraceRoute.

Pinging

[65.220.224.30] with 32 bytes of

Reply from 65.200.195.37: Destination net unreachable.

tracert

Tracing route to

[65.220.224.30] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms 10.5.63.1 2 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms at-1-1-0-1715.CORE-RTR2.NWRK.verizon-gni.net [13 0.81.7.53] 3 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms so-7-2-0-0.BB-RTR2.NWRK.verizon-gni.net [130.81. 20.162] 4 13 ms 12 ms 14 ms so-7-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.NWK80.verizon-gni.net [130. 81.17.159] 5 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms POS4-0.GW3.EWR6.ALTER.NET [152.63.21.125] 6 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms 0.so-3-3-0.XL1.EWR6.ALTER.NET [152.63.22.34] 7 80 ms 81 ms 80 ms 0.so-1-0-0.XL1.SJC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.50.26] 8 80 ms 80 ms 79 ms 0.so-6-0-0.GW6.SJC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.56.173] 9 81 ms 80 ms 81 ms pos5-0.ur1.sjc5.web.wcom.net [152.63.54.170] 10 80 ms 80 ms 81 ms 63.66.208.13 11 80 ms 81 ms 81 ms 63.66.208.214 12 * * * Request timed out. 13 * *