Just from curiosity....

Tue Jan 21 16:55:42 UTC 1997

filtering.  

what was the first part of the tracereoute.

Jeff Young
young at mci.net

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> Anyone have any insights on what causes the following interesting data
> from a traceroute?
> 
> 10  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  39 ms  36 ms  38 ms
> 11  * cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  36 ms *
> 12  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  38 ms * *
> 13  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  41 ms * *
> 14  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  194 ms * *
> 15  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  36 ms * *
> 16  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  36 ms *  37 ms
> 17  * cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  37 ms *
> 18  cpe1-fddi4-0.Reston.mci.net (204.70.176.102)  37 ms *  35 ms  
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