[Outages-discussion] Packet Loss Alternet-IAD -> Google-net

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <outages at jdc.parodius.com>

> Without return-path tracreoutes/mtrs it's hard to determine who might be
> responsible, but the string "XXX.alter.XXX" to me indicates Verizon/MCI.

Always a good target to blame.  :-)

> Re: mtr -r option: agreed. One useful thing though: if you have a wide
> terminal (I use 132x43), is that mtr honours COLUMNS, so you can do
> something like this (sh/bash syntax):
> 
> alias mtr='COLUMNS=90 mtr --order=LSRNABW'
> 
> ...as a way to inhibit the DNS names getting cropped. You might find
> the --order argument useful as well (I know I do).

That helps, but it's still not pulling the addresses off the same
run as the names.  Well, I've got the sources...

Cheers,
-- jra
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