[plug] UWA Ubuntu Mirror

Adam Hewitt ahewitt at ursys.com.au
Sat Jun 9 12:54:21 WST 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 21:12 +0800, Ian Ball wrote:
> The iinet mirror should be on WAIX.  The best way to check any site is
> using traceroute or mtr.
> "mtr ftp.iinet.net.au", and if one of the hops is waix, then the traffic
> is coming via waix.
> 
> --Ian

This method is bogus because mtr and traceroute only show you the
outbound path, not the return path. Given that WAIX connectivity is
required on the return path to be free this test means nothing.

Adam.




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