From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 13 02:16:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA07325 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 02:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA07313 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 02:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA12974; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:06:29 +0100 Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:20:13 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:21:25 +0100 To: Michael Smith , terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Subject: Re: SYN Resisting (fwd) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, karl@mcs.net, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, koshy@india.hp.com Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:08 am 13/9/96, Michael Smith wrote: >Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: >>[things] > >Ok, let's sink this right here and now. The major source of problems >with the US <-> Australia link is and has been for some time the >equipment/configuration/administration at the US end of things. You can >see this for yourself (from here) by pinging/tracerouting across the link; >everything's fine until you're several hops _off_ the wire at the US >end. For all that we cuss Telstra, they actually do a tolerably good >job. FWIW, whenever we have some problem talking from UK to some site on the west coast, it's usually breaking at the handoff between and . -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK