qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to pick them up please...

Sun Nov 4 06:12:20 UTC 2012

For some more information, this previous document and presentation make
good resources:

Document:

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf

There's also a presentation here:

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Interpret_traceroutes.wmv

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Randy <randy_94108 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Sat, 11/3/12, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: qwest.net dropping packets... wife would like someone to
> pick them up please...
> > To: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>
> > Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog at nanog.org>
> > Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 7:04 PM
> > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Randy
> > Bush <randy at psg.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> one router along the path showing loss that does
> > not continue to
> > >> affect the rest of the path simply means the cpu on
> > that router
> > >> is a bit too busy to respond to icmp messages
> > >
> > > trivial footnote: some folk configure some routers to
> > rate limit
> > > icmp
> >
> > other trivial footnote, not all traceroute is icmp.
> >
>  True, wrt to destination. However all intermediate(including penultimate)
> hops reveal themselves via ICMP type 11 Code 0 (TTL exceeded in transit)
> ./Randy
>
>
>