Re: [LI] traceroute freaking out?

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx forced the electrons to say:
> Hola ,
>   My IP was : 203.197.135.183 - and I did a traceroute to 203.197.135.182 -
>   for no apparent reason - just to check out what route the packets were
>   taking and how long it would take to reach some dude thats local to this
>   place.... and this was what i saw , someone care to explain the behaviour
>   ?

Even I had noticed this once before. I believe, since these are dynamically
assigned IP addresses, once the machine to which 135.182 is assigned goes off
the net, the routers at VSNL enter a loop, which is probably because of
misconfiguration on VSNL's part.

Anyway, you don't have to worry they will fill your screen - check the first
line of traceroute's o/p - it says 30 hops max. It will give up once 30 hops
are over.

Binand

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