[plug] [OT] bur.st unreachable

[James Devenish]

In message <411B0EFD.3010407 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:32:29PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >lns2.perth.westnet.com.au         95%     1   20   13.06   13.06   13.06
> 	^^^
> 	Our normal next hop. What's with the 95% packet loss?!

Maybe you are rate-limited to one ping per day for that device ;-)

> >lns2.perth.westnet.com.au          5%    19   20  731.87  743.70  870.64
> 	^^^
> 	And why are we back here now?

Noting how much they were delayed, and noting that in total you have
20 pings to that device and 20 pings coming back, I guess it's just a
"display interpretation" issue. I guess the device is sending back a
belated ICMP response, and thus being displayed misleadingly by mtr
for unknown reasons. Maybe mtr has an internal timeout and does not
consider such belated responses as part of its original request.