More on the "I can't access the Interex advocacy pages" topic...

From our site, any place I've chosen to "ping" responds in
less than a second...
except for www.interex.org.

ping www.adager.com
PING www.adager.com: (199.245.241.35): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 199.245.241.35: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=206 ms
64 bytes from 199.245.241.35: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=183 ms
64 bytes from 199.245.241.35: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=191 ms
^C
----www.adager.com PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 183/193/206 ms


ping www.interex.org
PING www.interex.org: (198.151.251.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 198.151.251.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=1871 ms
64 bytes from 198.151.251.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=1855 ms
64 bytes from 198.151.251.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=238 time=1881 ms
^C
----www.interex.org PING Statistics----
8 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 62% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1855/1869/1881 ms



Ok!  A problem!

Who is at fault?

traceroute www.interex.org
traceroute to www.interex.org (198.151.251.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  gateway.allegro.com (198.102.6.1)  6 ms  4 ms  5 ms
 2  r2.brainstorm.net (205.164.112.34)  77 ms  31 ms  87 ms
 3  r1-rtr0.brainstorm.net (205.164.112.33)  39 ms  35 ms  72 ms
 4  mae-west.nap.net (198.32.136.13)  68 ms  35 ms  42 ms
 5  mae-west.exodus.net (198.32.136.33)  682 ms * *
 6  * * *
 7  sc3-f6-0-0.exodus.net (209.1.169.6)  1874 ms  1890 ms  1876 ms
 8  * * *
 9  206.79.7.202 (206.79.7.202)  1983 ms * *
10  www.interex.org (198.151.251.10)  1892 ms * *


exodus.net?

My suspicion: the 10% of respondents who couldn't get the pages are going
through exodus.net, and the other 90% aren't?

Nope...not that simple.  I telnet'd to a client's machine in Southern California,
and their ping times are about 33 ms, and their traceroute is:

 1 foo.fum.fie (x.x.x.x)                           2 ms    1 ms    2 ms
 2 a.b.c (x.x.x.x)                                85 ms    8 ms  200 ms
 3 core2-fddi-0.Bloomington.mci.net (204.70.208.49)  135 ms   11 ms  339 ms
 4 * *
   core5.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.4.85)      241 ms
 5 pb-nap-OC3-1.exodus.net (198.32.128.25)        21 ms   22 ms   24 ms
 6 scca-02-f2-1-0.core.exodus.net (209.185.9.37)   22 ms   27 ms   23 ms
 7 sc3-f6-0-0.exodus.net (209.1.169.6)            24 ms   23 ms   24 ms
 8 santaclara-cisco12.exodus.net (207.82.200.12)   26 ms   25 ms   25 ms
 9 206.79.7.202 (206.79.7.202)                    26 ms   30 ms   28 ms
10 www.interex.org (198.151.251.10)               30 ms   27 ms   27 ms

maybe it's mae-west.exodus.net?

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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