On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Karthik Arumugham wrote:
> It seemed to be a routing problem in SprintLink when I tracerouted it right
> after it died. Died in SprintLink Chicago somewehere, then came back with
> lots of extra hops in the middle a few seconds later, and died some more and
> did the same a couple times while I was playing.

Hmm is their router down or just burping for some reason?
Here is what I get:

broadsword# date
Mon Sep  4 02:57:29 PDT 2000
broadsword# ping sage.real-time.com
PING sage.real-time.com (206.10.253.60): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=109.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=107.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=106.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=3 ttl=238 time=106.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=4 ttl=238 time=107.5 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=5 ttl=238 time=107.5 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=6 ttl=238 time=106.5 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=7 ttl=238 time=106.9 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=8 ttl=238 time=106.7 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=9 ttl=238 time=106.9 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=10 ttl=238 time=106.7 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=11 ttl=238 time=105.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=12 ttl=238 time=105.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=13 ttl=238 time=106.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=14 ttl=238 time=107.2 ms
64 bytes from 206.10.253.60: icmp_seq=15 ttl=238 time=105.8 ms
--- sage.real-time.com ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 16 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 105.8/106.8/109.4 ms
broadsword#
broadsword# traceroute sage.real-time.com
traceroute to sage.real-time.com (206.10.253.60), 30 hops max, 38
byte packets
 1  sabre.caelum.cx (192.168.1.1)  2.120 ms  1.901 ms  1.715 ms
 2  254-139-7-216.ip.sirius.com (216.7.139.254)  32.813 ms
    31.665 ms  33.638 ms
 3  border-sf-2-0-4.sirius.com (205.134.230.254)  19.602 ms
    18.508 ms  17.669 ms
 4  bdr1.sntccaidc.firstworld.net (205.134.254.38)  22.128 ms
    22.647 ms  21.314 ms
 5  216.127.93.254 (216.127.93.254)  21.979 ms  19.648 ms  21.174 ms
 6  s8-1-0.ar1.SFO1.gblx.net (204.246.203.229)  24.375 ms 22.802ms  
    24.508 ms
 7  pos2-0-155M.cr1.SFO1.gblx.net (206.132.110.129)  24.500 ms
    21.564 ms  20.935 ms
 8  pos6-0-2488M.cr1.SNV.gblx.net (208.50.169.62)  24.500 ms
     23.878 ms  24.410 ms
 9  pos5-0-0-155M.br3.SNV.gblx.net (206.132.150.30)  25.487 ms
    25.991 ms  25.187 ms
10  sl-gw1-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.110.9)  29.963 ms
    25.408 ms  25.643 ms
11  sl-bb20-sj-0-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.29)  26.400 ms
    26.180 ms  26.762 ms
12  sl-bb10-tac-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.214)  44.454 ms
    43.641 ms  42.669 ms
13  sl-bb10-sea-7-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.42)  44.401 ms
    43.576 ms  44.807 ms
14  sl-bb12-chi-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.50)  90.516 ms
    91.333 ms  92.319 ms
15  144.232.10.177 (144.232.10.177)  92.556 ms  91.958 ms  92.228 ms
16  144.232.26.30 (144.232.26.30)  93.588 ms  91.177 ms  92.796 ms
17  sl-bb12-chi-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.2)  92.155 ms
    91.407 ms  90.891 ms
18  sl-bb13-chi-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.53)  90.595 ms
    92.058 ms  92.156 ms
19  sl-bb3-chi-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.154)  90.509 ms
    94.841 ms  93.055 ms
20  sl-gw10-chi-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.50.14)  94.024 ms
    94.391 ms  92.237 ms
21  sl-rtent-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.52.126)  117.072 ms
    105.377 ms  103.452 ms
22  sage.real-time.com (206.10.253.60)  105.750 ms  105.877 ms
    104.330 ms


uram at cmu.edu
"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29