[plug] The world has disappeared

[Steve Boak]

On Monday 25 August 2003 23:04, indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU wrote:
> Seems like westnet don't like people tracerouting to their
> server...
>
> I find it handy to keep a couple of know IP addresses
> (for example : google : 216.239.39.99) handy, so
> if DNS goes down I can still test out to the world etc....
>
> Indy
>
OK, lets try it - It's a long way to google-land... (I did say 
google.com.AU, didn't I?)

Now traceroute decides to work. Must be only some of westnet's servers 
blocking!

I really like point 18 :) 

[root at neddy steve]# traceroute google.com.au
traceroute: Warning: google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 
216.239.39.100
traceroute to google.com.au (216.239.39.100), 30 hops max, 38 byte 
packets
 1  min (192.168.1.253)  0.481 ms  0.390 ms  0.423 ms
 2  202.72.191.217 (202.72.191.217)  137.850 ms  119.846 ms
[root at neddy steve]# traceroute google.com.au
traceroute: Warning: google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 
216.239.37.100
traceroute to google.com.au (216.239.37.100), 30 hops max, 38 byte 
packets
 1  min (192.168.1.253)  0.510 ms  0.445 ms  1.040 ms
 2  202.72.191.217 (202.72.191.217)  149.241 ms  118.652 ms  119.125 
ms
 3  202.72.191.193 (202.72.191.193)  119.182 ms  118.604 ms  119.163 
ms
 4  FastEthernet1-0.qvb2.Perth.telstra.net (139.130.3.5)  119.144 ms *  
120.803
ms
 5  GigabitEthernet2-1.wel-core3.Perth.telstra.net (203.50.112.57)  
125.420 ms 118.235 ms  115.800 ms
 6  Pos4-0.way-core4.Adelaide.telstra.net (203.50.6.193)  149.583 ms  
146.942 ms  149.134 ms
 7  Pos5-0.exi-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.6.161)  155.764 ms  
159.751 ms  169.954 ms
 8  Pos6-0.chw-core2.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.17)  179.928 ms  
179.692 ms 179.971 ms
 9  10GigabitEthernet3-0.pad-core5.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.90)  
179.941 ms  178.390 ms  179.929 ms
10  GigabitEthernet0-1.syd-core02.Sydney.net.reach.com (203.50.13.254)  
179.934 ms  179.682 ms  179.976 ms
11  GigabitEthernet1-1.syd-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.219.213)  
179.951 ms  179.801 ms  179.944 ms
12  i-13-1.sjc-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.21)  360.030 ms  
359.768 ms  370.212 ms
13  i-11-0.chi-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.58)  449.683 ms  
429.865 ms  429.958 ms
14  i-12-0.eig-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.86)  459.952 ms  
459.899 ms  460.009 ms
15  i-10-0.nwk-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.90)  459.950 ms  
489.345 ms  499.938 ms
16  i-10-0.ash-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.81)  489.975 ms  
469.789 ms  470.055 ms
17  i-3-1.ash01.net.reach.com (202.40.148.154)  469.972 ms  469.798 ms  
469.968 ms
18  eqixva-google-gige.google.com (206.223.115.21)  479.947 ms  
469.804 ms  469.937 ms
19  216.239.48.193 (216.239.48.193)  469.977 ms  469.874 ms  469.947 
ms
20  216.239.48.85 (216.239.48.85)  470.021 ms  489.872 ms  469.969 ms
21  216.239.48.89 (216.239.48.89)  470.002 ms  469.867 ms  469.939 ms
22  216.239.48.94 (216.239.48.94)  470.033 ms  479.860 ms  469.986 ms
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[root at neddy steve]#

I must be bored tonight...

Steve

-- 
'What is worth doing and what is worth having?'
I would like to say simply this.
"It is worth doing nothing and having a rest."