Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!ucbvax!NRI.RESTON.VA.US!pgross From: pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US ("Phillip G. Gross") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Long lines... Message-ID: <9008311031.aa04635@NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US> Date: 31 Aug 90 14:31:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Arnold, Your 6 hop path is certainly more direct, but notice that it takes almost 5 seconds, while the more convoluted 18 hop path via Princeton and Cornell takes only little more than a second. With that type of difference, I have a better understanding for routes via NSFnet for intra-European traffic. Phill >From: Arnold Nipper --- XLINK > >traceroute to 129.102.0.1 (129.102.0.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets > 1 iracs1.ira.uka.de (129.13.1.1) 20 ms 0 ms 0 ms > 2 ciscogb5.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (188.1.132.1) 1020 ms 840 ms 1080 ms > 3 Amsterdam.NL.EU.NET (134.222.1.1) 4120 ms * 3800 ms > 4 Paris.FR.EU.NET (134.222.2.2) 4340 ms 4900 ms 3760 ms > 5 fnet-gw.inria.fr (128.93.36.128) 3880 ms 3740 ms * > 6 192.44.64.61 (192.44.64.61) 3980 ms 4960 ms * >From: Michel Fingerhut >Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France) > >1 ircam-gw (129.102.0.1) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms >. >. >. >18 iracs1.ira.uka.de (192.54.104.49) 1310 ms 1140 ms 1190 ms