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From: phil@BRL.MIL (Phil Dykstra)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Thanks
Message-ID: <9002061910.aa00517@SPARK.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Feb 90 00:10:02 GMT
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I just wanted to thank whoever-did-it for some changes-for-the-better
that happened recently:

1) Thanks to the NIC for answering all pings again.  I my opinion this
   is one of the NIC's valuable services, especially since you do record
   route right (!), are on ARPA and MIL net, and are almost always up.

2) Thanks to the core gateway guys for implementing Record Route.

3) Thanks to the core for no longer forwarding 1->0 TTL packets
   (so traceroute works right).

The nice result:

vgr> ping -R sri-nic.arpa
PING sri-nic.arpa (10.0.0.51): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.51: icmp_seq=0 time=374 ms
BRL.ARPA (26.2.0.29)
RESTON-DCEC-MB.DDN.MIL (10.6.0.20)
NIC.DDN.MIL (10.0.0.51)
NIC.DDN.MIL (26.0.0.73)
ext394.brl.mil (192.5.23.253)
vgr.brl.mil (192.5.23.6)

sprt> traceroute sri-nic.arpa
traceroute to nic.ddn.mil (10.0.0.51), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  gw394 (192.5.23.1)  20 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  ext394 (192.5.23.253)  20 ms  20 ms  20 ms
 3  reston-dcec-mb.ddn.mil (26.21.0.104)  120 ms  180 ms  120 ms
 4  nic.ddn.mil (26.0.0.73)  340 ms  720 ms  360 ms

- Phil