[Gllug] Bank Holiday Monday type question

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 30 May, Simon Morris wrote:
> 
> On 5/30/05, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > If I traceroute anywhere about 90% of the time is taken getting the
> > packet off my network and into the wide world...why is that?
> > 
> > ie what is the technical reason for the big delay in routing a packet
> > off my network and into the internetwork?
> > 
> 
> 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

   I am getting far worse than that, although I have been downloading at
maximum rate for some time (my firewall shows a fairly consistent
60KBytes/second with minimum 50KBytes/second)
(apologies for the long lines!)

traceroute to bbc.co.uk (212.58.228.154), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  doorman.localdomain (172.16.1.1) 48 bytes to 172.16.1.8  50 ms  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 2  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 3  thus2-hg3.ealing.broadband.bt.net (217.32.137.202) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2250 ms  2510 ms  2630 ms  2710 ms  2500 ms
 4  217.32.137.162 (217.32.137.162) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2280 ms 217.32.137.129 (217.32.137.129) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2280 ms  2410 ms  2820 ms 217.32.137.130 (217.32.137.130) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  3230 ms
 5  217.32.137.238 (217.32.137.238) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  3690 ms  3640 ms  2710 ms  3080 ms 217.32.137.234 (217.32.137.234) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2910 ms
 6  park-inside-1-g3-0-0-s193.router.demon.net (194.159.246.66) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2510 ms  2400 ms  2450 ms  2570 ms  2650 ms
 7  tele-border-2-g1-0-2.router.demon.net (194.70.98.198) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2930 ms  3120 ms  3930 ms  4120 ms  3970 ms
 8  demon-te4-3-607.prt0.rbsov.bbc.co.uk (195.11.50.66) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  4320 ms  3310 ms  3130 ms  3530 ms  3290 ms
 9  212.58.238.133 (212.58.238.133) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  3310 ms  3600 ms  3390 ms  3520 ms  3760 ms
10  212.58.238.33 (212.58.238.33) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  3410 ms  3990 ms  3620 ms  4080 ms  4200 ms
11  pos6-0.rt1.mh.bbc.co.uk (212.58.239.254) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  4030 ms  4110 ms  3880 ms  4340 ms  3470 ms
12  bbc.co.uk (212.58.228.154) 48 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2790 ms  3400 ms  3540 ms  3770 ms  4500 ms

   I would guess that there are lots of people not enjoying the sunshine,
plus a huge number of virus attacks while sysadmins are not on duty.

-- 
Chris Bell

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