[19117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Urrr... A-root server foul ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Becker)
Wed Aug 26 16:46:49 1998
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Becker <bbecker@iconn.net>
To: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35E46042.70735788@onecall.net>
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Irving wrote:
> Name: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> Address: 198.41.0.4
>
> And a ping yields ?
>
>
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=59 ms
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=249 time=76 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=77 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=57 ms
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=64 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=18 ttl=250 time=71 ms
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=250 time=53 ms
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=57 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!)
>
Interesting TTLs on those.
I'm getting four for the price of one...
biteme:~$ ping a.root-servers.net
PING a.root-servers.net (198.41.0.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=76.6 ms
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=94.1 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=106.0 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=126.0 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=85.0 ms
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=93.5 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=106.0 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=115.1 ms (DUP!)
Bill
