[plug] Debian - clueless :o}

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Nov 20 19:29:41 WST 2003


> 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.

Some sites offer a CGI script where you can request a traceroute from 
them back to you - this allows you to be fairly sure that data will be 
doing the full look via WAIX.

> 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.

Asymmetric routing - yay :-(

Craig Ringer

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