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Re: Sluggish nntp performance
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:48:54 GMT
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Time to connect is now up to 38 seconds. Doesn't seem to ever be better or
worse, consistently 30+ seconds. Tracert looks pretty good, 6 alter.net
routers to pairnetworks and they pass through very quick.
Losing about 10% of the packets pinging lugnet compared to 0% for yahoo.
--
Scott Smallbeck
scotts@contactics.com
http://www.nwlink.com/~ccdsl/scott/main.htm
Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message
news:3800D204.19241C6A@io.com...
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, it's some sort of ISP networking traffic thing...?
> > Pinging www.lugnet.com reports "Request timed out" at the sames times • that
> > pinging www.pair.com reports the same, while pinging other sites like
> > www.yahoo.com and www.netscape.com report normal replies. What do you • see
> > when you ping?
>
> traceroute was taken during ho-hum performance; I'll take another one • during
> really flaky performance.
>
> <PING>
> c:\pub>ping lugnet.com
>
> Pinging lugnet.com [209.68.63.236] with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 209.68.63.236: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244
> Reply from 209.68.63.236: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=244
> Reply from 209.68.63.236: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244
> Reply from 209.68.63.236: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=244
> </PING>
>
> And a traceroute. NOTE: Novell router addresses kifed by paraoid policy • of
> Novell IS&T.
>
> <TRACEROUTE>
> c:\pub>tracert lugnet.com
>
> Tracing route to lugnet.com [209.68.63.236]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms #############.###.novell.com • [137.65.###.###]
> 2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms #############.###.novell.com • [137.65.###.###]
> 3 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms #############.###.novell.com • [137.65.###.###]
> 4 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms #############.###.novell.com • [137.65.###.###]
> 5 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms Serial5-1-1.GW1.SLT1.ALTER.NET
> [157.130.162.77]
> 6 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms 137.39.167.101
> 7 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms 195.ATM2-0.TR1.SLT3.ALTER.NET • [146.188.224.2]
> 8 41 ms 50 ms 50 ms 113.ATM6-0.TR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET
> [146.188.137.209]
> 9 40 ms 50 ms 50 ms 199.ATM7-0.XR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET
> [146.188.161.133]
> 10 50 ms 70 ms 70 ms 193.ATM8-0-0.GW1.PIT1.ALTER.NET
> [146.188.162.81]
> 11 50 ms 61 ms 60 ms pairnetworks-gw.customer.ALTER.NET
> [157.130.32.178]
> 12 * * * Request timed out.
> 13 60 ms 60 ms 61 ms lugnet.com [209.68.63.236]
>
> Trace complete.
> </TRACEROUTE>
>
> That router #12 always times out. I'm sure it just means that it's set up • to
> not respond to ping from outside the firewall...
>
> LUGNET.COM responds to ping fairly quickly, as always.
>
> > p.s. HTTP, unlike NNTP, is stateless, so it's a lot easier for NNTP
> > connections to drop and cause headaches than HTTP. Your web browser • might
> > also have higher TCP/IP timeouts or latency tolerances than your • newsreader.
>
> Hmmm... I haven't thought of this. Monday when I'm at work again, I'll • put a
> packet sniffer on it and see if I'm getting a lot of timeouts...
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
> Jeremy: "Hi, My name is Jeremy Sproat, and I'm a...Slashdot Lemming."
> All: "Hi, Jeremy."
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| (...) traceroute was taken during ho-hum performance; I'll take another one during really flaky performance. <PING> c:\pub>ping lugnet.com Pinging lugnet.com [209.68.63.236] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 209.68.63.236: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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