[stomachmonkey]

Think of the route as a series of intersections from your house to wayne.

If you look at the result of the trace route the 1st 3 entries are getting out of your ISP, (leave your garage, pull out of the driveway and onto the streeet). If it dies there the problem is with them or that the DNS entries on your computer got blown away. I tend to doubt the later.

Everything in between are the lefts and rights that you make to get to waynes. If it dies somewhere along that line the problem has nothing to do with you or your ISP and the only thing you can do is wait for it to resolve itself. Think of it as a bridge that got washed out or a raod closed due to construction.

The internet is "self healing" meaning it should route you around trouble once it learns about it. Traffic on the net will take a different route all the time, it always tries to use the quickest shortest route, at least that's the theory.

Try using the ip address, just put it into the browser as is, 66.236.61.165 that should get you there if a domain controller is down along the way.

Scott