[plug] Debian - clueless :o}

[Cameron Patrick]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:51:19PM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
| > All WAIXable. Traceroute first just to be sure :)
| 
| Hmm, I never knew you could do that. What am I looking for in traceroute to 
| tell me that it's on WAIX? I get:
| 
| # traceroute ftp.wa.au.debian.org
| traceroute to ftp.wa.au.debian.org (203.8.116.111), 30 hops max, 40 byte 
| packets
|  1  firewall.localdomain (192.168.1.250)  2.025 ms   3.328 ms   4.549 ms
|  2  i014-016.nv.iinet.net.au (203.59.14.16)  22.909 ms   32.913 ms   42.718 ms
|  3  per-qv1-core3.iinet.net.au (203.59.49.175)  59.434 ms   142.673 ms   
| 147.008 ms
|  4  203.59.49.170  148.392 ms   150.066 ms   151.701 ms
|  5  it.ix.waia.asn.au (198.32.212.25)  153.107 ms   154.769 ms   156.420 ms
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ix.waia.asn.au should be mildly suggestive of WAIX connectivity.

BUT this doesn't guarantee much, because the traceroute only tells you
the path the packets take getting from your machine to wa.au.debian.org.
It is possible that the packets coming back aren't routed through WAIX -
and it's the ones coming back the count toward you quota.  You can't
really tell what path they'll come back via, though, short of running a
traceroute from wa.au.debian.org.  Ferinstance, at one point Planetmirror
looked like it was on WAIX when you did a traceroute, but it wasn't
really.  I'm sure someone else here knows all the gory details of that
story.

Cameron.

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