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Article #8Re: newsgroup counts, ELN vs deja.com
From: bielling
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00
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In <poakbs856k2u4ssv2k0doposq47omsfif5@4ax.com>, on 02/28/00 at 08:11 PM, SUR <marisol@mindspring.com> said: >Interesting theory, one based in fact? Don't think so, their networks >haven't merged, so the merger doesn't have a thing to do with what you're >seeing. Most likely a coincidental change your phone company made, or >perhaps you need to try to update firmware and/or drivers for your modem. >Perhaps nobody changed anything, and something on the phone lines have >gone screwy. Well, I did think it was an odd coincidence. I now have evidence to show that it was a transient condition. However, a tech support person introduced me to 'traceroute' (in Linux; in OS/2 it's 'tracerte') and I found something interesting. I had been pinging 127.0.0.1 to check the timing on my OS and TCP/IP stack. I was getting about 200ms returns so I upgraded my stack -- to no greater avail. So I did a traceroute and found that 127.0.0.1 wasn't truly local! My shell accounts return 0.1/0.1/0.2 and 0.1/0.2/0.6 when I ping them and the traceroute there is very local (of course). What I don't understand is why my pings go all the way to the ISP and back. I thought local was *local* as in *not remote.* ;-) I have no real data to back this up but I seem to recall that when I was at another ISP my local was within my box, not within the local network. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- bielling@mindspring.com -----------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3ab,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3ab,public X-Google-Thread: fdd88,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdd88,public X-Google-Thread: 107b34,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gid107b34,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: fe40d,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe40d,public X-Google-Thread: f47fd,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gidf47fd,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,208bcb67309a0018 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public From: bielling@mindspring.com Subject: Re: newsgroup counts, ELN vs deja.com Date: 2000/02/28 Message-ID: <38bb1fc8$1$ovryyvat$mr2ice@news.mindspring.com> X-Deja-AN: 591111992 References: <v9Od4.2705$Ul3.125773@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <0u7e4.1186$iZ1.56658@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <M5Fe4.5945$o62.268666@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <D3Ze4.8271$o62.372752@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <272das8r53df5m13sekuadadh0bd5565e1@4ax.com> <0uCp4.1213$Zp1.41818@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <Ai3q4.6335$Zp1.191328@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <sb2f86a1r2a19@corp.supernews.com> <38b181a5$1$ovryyvat$mr2ice@news.mindspring.com> <poakbs856k2u4ssv2k0doposq47omsfif5@4ax.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises X-Server-Date: 29 Feb 2000 01:26:36 GMT Newsgroups: alt.internet.newservers,alt.internet.providers.america,alt.provider.earthlink,ba.internet,earthlink.complaints,earthlink.tech-support.news,misc.consumers