[plug] Debian - clueless :o}

[Luke Dudney]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:14, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.
> 

Some hosts will let you record the route taken back to you by the return
packets. This doesn't work all the time, indeed it doesn't seem to work
much at all.

eg.
[09:33:56]luke at in-mta01:~$ ping -R ftp.uwa.edu.au
PING pandora.ucs.uwa.edu.au (130.95.3.26) 56(124) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pandora.ucs.uwa.edu.au (130.95.3.26): icmp_seq=1 ttl=60
time=4.59 ms
RR:     in-mta01.westnet.com.au (203.10.1.47)
        fa2-0.smt.westnet.com.au (202.72.191.193)
        westnet.ix.waia.asn.au (198.32.212.6)
        uwa-parnet2.parnet.edu.au (203.19.110.209)
        130.95.3.29
        pandora.ucs.uwa.edu.au (130.95.3.26)
        pandora.ucs.uwa.edu.au (130.95.3.26)
        parnet2-uwa.parnet.edu.au (203.19.110.210)
        parnet.ix.waia.asn.au (198.32.212.12)
 
Cheers
Luke



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