RE: news4.sucknews.com is slow

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: "Usenet-Access Support" <http://www.usenet-access.com/~support>
 > Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 11:52:14 -0500
 >
 > To assist us in troubleshooting, please send us a traceroute. BUT ONLY DO
 > THIS IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SPEED PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME (otherwise the
 > trace will be inaccurate if you're OK now).  Here's how:
 > 
 > 1) open an MSDOS prompt and type:
 > 
 > tracert name.of.slow.server >> c:\trace.txt
 > 
 > and hit enter.
 > 
 > 2) email us the trace.txt file that is on your C drive.
 > 
 > Thanks!

It's still running slowly.

I tried running traceroute, but, with my current Linksys firewall set up,
it will not work:

% traceroute -n news4.sucknews.com
traceroute to corp-news.newsfeeds.com (216.65.98.9), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  * * *
 3  * * *

My Linksys firewall/router does not have the ability to traceroute from
there.  Setting the machine to be a DMZ host doesn't seem to help, either.

Pinging is the only way to see the round-route time.

In any case, if I'm the only one experiencing this problem, then it's
something at my end which is the problem.  I'll trying experimenting.