[Gllug] Bank Holiday Monday type question

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:52:53PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:36 +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My guess is that traceroute is trying to resolve the names of the
> > devices that it comes across and spends some time timing out resolving
> > the devices on your network.
> > 
> > Try running traceroute so it doesn't bother resolving names
> > 
> > traceroute -n hostname
> > 
> > ~sm
> no, it's clearly some sort of physical thing...
> 
>  1  192.168.62.64  0.554 ms  0.391 ms  0.366 ms
>  2  172.17.0.1  23.149 ms  22.395 ms  22.712 ms
>  3  81.1.64.62  23.111 ms  22.677 ms  23.134 ms

Would I be right in assuming that 172.17.0.1 is the address at the other end of your
broadband ppp connection ? I find much the same thing ... that most of the time is taken
getting across the BT collossus network to the ISP, from there things are quite fast.

Mind you - 22ms is the ping time that I was getting on physically adjacent machines 15 years
ago -- and I was happy then.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
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