Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:19:19 -0400 From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: freefall down/dead? Message-ID: <199608232019.QAA01992@goffette.research.megasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1533.840733989@time.cdrom.com> References: <199608221602.JAA16581@seagull.rtd.com> <1533.840733989@time.cdrom.com>
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>>>>> "JKH" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: JKH> freefall has been up for 11 days, and it's the Internet which JKH> goes down more frequently now. Ping isn't much of a test - use JKH> traceroute to see if it's actually us or something in between. I've found that it's very often impossible to get there when my ISP decides to route over a connection to Sprint. I talked them out of doing that, and now they route over MCI, but still occasionally can't make it. Usually, it's a confused router someplace, continually routing through itself, or two routers throwing the packets back and forth at each other... I can see it now... Router 1: Here you go Router 2: It's not mine Router 1: Yeah, but you can get there Router 2: You're closer Router 1: No I'm not Router 2: I'm not routing this packet Router 1: Look, this is a user's packet! Router 2: If it's such an emergency, then *you* route it. Router 1: Ok, here you go.... -- C Matthew Curtin MEGASOFT, LLC Chief Scientist I speak only for myself. Don't whine to anyone but me about anything I say. Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/
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