[7576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rumpelein)
Mon Feb 17 21:18:39 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:45:37 -0800 (PST)
From: John Rumpelein <jmr@wizard.mpl.net>
To: "Michael S. Ramsey" <msr@interpath.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.970217150113.12251A-100000@enterprise.interpath.net>
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael S. Ramsey wrote:
> Just looking at it, and not knowing from where you are getting this, it
> may be normal. Pings are a low priority for most hardware, and are subject
> to being dropped.
They weren't being dropped though, they were getting bounced back and
forth between two addresses. There was indeed a problem, but Sprint has
stabilized it and assumes it is fixed. The problem lasted from at least
2am PST early this morning until after noon today.
/* John */
