[CZ-bugs] Fw: Re: CZ down?

dan nessett dnessett at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 27 23:43:22 CDT 2010


In checking the cz-bugs list archive, I noticed that I sent the following message to myself, rather than to the list. I am forwarding it to the list now, since some of my subsequent messages make no sense without it as context.

Dan Nessett

--- On Sat, 3/27/10, dan nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: dan nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [CZ-bugs] CZ down?
> To: "dan nessett" <dnessett at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 5:32 PM
> Again. You need to learn how to
> interpret traceroute output. The "* * *" after hop 5 need
> not occur as the result of a distressed gateway. A common
> reason is the gateway does not send ICMP "time exceeded"
> responses (because its admins wish to cloak its identity).
> The time values given after each gateway represent the time
> from when the traceroute routine sends the probe message and
> the time it receives the ICMP time exceeded response. The
> fact that the times shown after
> vl26.core3.chi01.steadfast.net and locke.citizendium.org are
> significantly greater than the times after
> vl26.core3.chi01.steadfast.net does not necessarily indicate
> that there are problems with steadfast networks internal
> network (although it may). It may mean that the
> transatlantic hop is experiencing significant problems
> (which seems likely, since the increase in time between
> 92.79.213.154 [a system somewhere in Germany] and
> linx1.lon00.steadfast.net is over 60 ms.).
> 
> You need to spend some time reading the traceroute man
> page.
> 
> I just ran traceroute for both reid and locke from my
> system in Fremont, CA. Here are the results:
> 
>  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 36 bytes to
> 192.168.1.50  1.046 ms  0.507 ms  0.416 ms
>  2  * * *
>  3  ge-3-8-ur02.fremont.ca.sfba.comcast.net
> (68.85.191.189) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  9.302
> ms  8.322 ms  11.534 ms
>  4  te-0-8-0-3-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net
> (68.85.154.118) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  18.245
> ms  9.292 ms  8.946 ms
>  5  pos-0-5-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.90.137) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  12.078
> ms  17.428 ms  11.297 ms
>  6  pos-1-15-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.86) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  22.781 ms 
> 23.353 ms  24.819 ms
>  7  pos-0-15-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.138) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  57.787
> ms  56.504 ms  57.657 ms
>  8  pos-0-11-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.222) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  79.925
> ms  79.046 ms  79.049 ms
>  9  pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.57) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  92.551 ms 
> 92.650 ms  93.328 ms
> 10  pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.86.38) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  93.503 ms 
> 92.440 ms  93.609 ms
> 11  * * *
> 12  vl26.core3.chi01.steadfast.net (208.100.32.25) 36
> bytes to 192.168.1.50  103.052 ms  92.448 ms 
> 92.599 ms
> 13  locke.citizendium.org (208.100.41.195) 48 bytes to
> 192.168.1.50  98.023 ms  94.320 ms  91.092
> ms
> 
>  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 36 bytes to
> 192.168.1.50  1.423 ms  0.399 ms  0.500 ms
>  2  * * *
>  3  ge-3-8-ur02.fremont.ca.sfba.comcast.net
> (68.85.191.189) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  7.466
> ms  8.898 ms  9.428 ms
>  4  te-0-8-0-3-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net
> (68.85.154.118) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  10.346
> ms  9.505 ms  11.955 ms
>  5  pos-0-3-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.90.129) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  17.014
> ms  14.386 ms  11.474 ms
>  6  pos-1-12-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.86.6) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  22.980 ms 
> 22.350 ms  21.508 ms
>  7  pos-0-12-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.86.118) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  58.007
> ms  56.418 ms  59.677 ms
>  8  pos-0-11-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.222) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  81.888
> ms  79.601 ms  78.033 ms
>  9  pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.85.57) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  92.600 ms 
> 93.569 ms  91.067 ms
> 10  pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net
> (68.86.86.38) 36 bytes to 192.168.1.50  91.549 ms 
> 92.036 ms  91.574 ms
> 11  * * *
> 12  vl26.core3.chi01.steadfast.net (208.100.32.25) 36
> bytes to 192.168.1.50  90.536 ms  101.919 ms 
> 91.122 ms
> 13  reid.citizendium.org (208.100.41.196) 48 bytes to
> 192.168.1.50  91.538 ms  93.066 ms  93.579
> ms
> 
> As you see, there is little jitter in the time values
> within the steadfast network internal network. Also notice
> that in each case gateways 2 and 11 did not return ICMP time
> exceeded messages. It is likely that gateway 11 is at the
> edge of the steadfast networks internal network (like
> linx1.lon00.steadfast.net), suggesting that gateway 5 in
> your traceroute output also doesn't return ICMP time
> exceeded responses.
> 
> Dan
> 
> --- On Sat, 3/27/10, dan nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: dan nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [CZ-bugs] CZ down?
> > To: cz-bugs at mail.citizendium.org,
> "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>
> > Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 4:01 PM
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>
> > > Subject: [CZ-bugs] CZ down?
> > > To: cz-bugs at mail.citizendium.org
> > > Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 3:12 PM
> > > daniels-macbook:~ daniel$ traceroute
> > > en.citizendium.org
> > > traceroute: Warning: en.citizendium.org has
> multiple
> > > addresses; using
> > > 208.100.41.195
> > > traceroute to en.citizendium.org
> (208.100.41.195), 64
> > hops
> > > max, 40 byte packets
> > >  1  easy.box (192.168.2.1)  3.571 ms  1.922
> > > ms  0.896 ms
> > >  2  dslb-088-072-160-001.pools.arcor-ip.net
> > > (88.72.160.1)  16.361 ms
> > > 145.254.8.93 (145.254.8.93)  16.989 ms  16.588
> > > ms
> > >  3  92.79.213.154 (92.79.213.154)  40.598
> > > ms  40.479 ms  38.809 ms
> > >  4  linx1.lon00.steadfast.net
> (195.66.225.48) 
> > > 104.045 ms  105.534 ms
> > > 105.882 ms
> > >  5  * * *
> > >  6  vl26.core3.chi01.steadfast.net
> > > (208.100.32.25)  125.923 ms
> > > 128.512 ms  126.852 ms
> > >  7  locke.citizendium.org (208.100.41.195) 
> > > 127.023 ms  157.237 ms  126.693 ms
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/cz-bugs
> > > 
> > 
> > This traceroute shows that locke is up, not down. You
> need
> > to learn how to interpret traceroute messages. Also,
> as I
> > stated once before, the significant delay/problem
> appears to
> > occur on the transatlantic hop, not within steadfast
> > networks.
> > 
> > 
> >       
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> 
> 
> 
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