[28685] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Asia Pacific problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer (E-mail))
Fri May 12 08:09:07 2000
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From: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Joe Abley'" <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: "'LIST NANOG (E-mail)'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 05:04:29 -0700
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Hi Joe,
I've been meaning to talk to you about IDNO stuff, when I have some =
time, after I get my INN servers up and running.
On the AP question. I am aware that there are various routes. What I am =
asking, that I thought the traceroute made clear, was if there was =
anything specifically reported involving Hong Kong, which is where the =
traceroute went nutz.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@automagic.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:58 AM
> To: Roeland Meyer (E-mail)
> Cc: LIST NANOG (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Asia Pacific problems?
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> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Roeland Meyer (E-mail) wrote:
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> > Does anyone know what's happening across the pacific?
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> > root@falcon#> traceroute www.pcchips.com
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> There are around ten separate, major (IP) routes into New=20
> Zealand using
> several cable systems and several more satellite operators.=20
> New Zealand
> attracts a tiny minority of traffic within Asia Pacific, and there are
> innumerous other countries in the region with greater=20
> diversity (in both
> transmission and IP senses).
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> This is by way of illustration; "what's happening across the=20
> pacific" is a
> question with no apparent answer; the implication that there is some
> common failure point when routing between the US and the=20
> entire region is
> false.
