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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: downloading wordperfect demo... Date: 12 Jan 1997 15:19:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5bave9$2s5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32C46C3B.59E2B600@javanet.com> <5as8ce$hho@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33802 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > I've noticed some bad connections to German sites too - I traceroute'd > to said sites and then ping'd each hop. One particular machine was > loosing about 1/2 of the packets sent to it (sorry, can't remember the > name now) - despite other machines in that domain being fine. I tried > to send a message to postmaster at that machine, but it eventually > "failed to deliver" :( > > I still get problems with a lot of .de machines. Said postmaster wouldn't have been able to help you either. The sites you're noticing are most likely universities etc. sitting on the German WiN (Wissenschafts-Netz, the educational network). They are gated through MCInet, and while previously the gateways itself were often the bottleneck, my own traceroutes now very often show the first hops at MCInet after the WiN gate being the culprits. So that's nothing a local admin could even influence. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)