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From: ejm@riscit.NOC.Vitalink.COM (Erik J. Murrey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Is the Internet usable for wide-area interactive conversations?
Keywords: lack of Internet stability
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164850.21787@nocsun.NOC.Vitalink.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 16:48:50 GMT
References: <2039.Jun1803.33.1391@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Jun18.224350.21721@Think.COM> <1991Jun19.044623.19628@sura.net>
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In article <1991Jun19.044623.19628@sura.net>, oleary@sura.net (dave o'leary) writes:
|> traceroute to berkeley.edu (128.32.133.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
|>  1  sura6 (128.167.1.6)  20 ms  10 ms  0 ms
|>  2  nss (192.80.214.254)  10 ms  0 ms  10 ms
|>  3  Ithaca.NY.NSS.NSF.NET (129.140.74.9)  40 ms  30 ms  40 ms
|>  4  lan.cornell.site.psi.net (192.35.82.1)  50 ms  50 ms  50 ms
|>  5  cornell.syr.pop.psi.net (128.145.30.1)  90 ms  50 ms  40 ms
|>  6  albpop.syr.pop.psi.net (128.145.20.2)  60 ms syr.wp.pop.psi.net (128.145.91.1)  70 ms albpop.syr.pop.psi.net (128.145.20.2)  70 ms
|>  7  wp.nyc.pop.psi.net (128.145.84.1)  50 ms albpop.nyc2.pop.psi.net (128.145.80.1)  80 ms wp.nyc.pop.psi.net (128.145.84.1)  60 ms
|>  8  nyc_P1.lan.nyc2.pop.psi.net (128.145.218.2)  60 ms  70 ms  70 ms
|>  9  nyc2.nyu.site.psi.net (128.145.44.2)  90 ms  130 ms  80 ms
|> 10  NYU.EDU (128.122.128.2)  80 ms  330 ms  90 ms
|> 11  NYEGRESS.NYU.EDU (128.122.128.44)  70 ms  70 ms  70 ms
|> 12  nyu.nyc2.pop.psi.net (128.145.44.1)  70 ms  80 ms  70 ms
...


Actually, PSI has been having some problems recently with a T-span into
cornell.   This is probably the cause of your problems.

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Erik J. Murrey
Vitalink Communications NOC
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