Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rutgers!orstcs!ruffwork From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: A new record? Message-ID: <4512@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 8 May 88 21:00:45 GMT References: <8805062353.AA23117@mimsy.umd.edu> Reply-To: ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University, Corvallis Lines: 17 In article <8805062353.AA23117@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@MIMSY.UMD.EDU (Chris Torek) writes: >PING okeeffe.berkeley.edu (128.32.130.3): 56 data bytes >64 bytes from 128.32.130.3: icmp_seq=11. time=253239. ms >64 bytes from 128.32.130.3: icmp_seq=294. time=1070. ms > >So where *was* that packet for four minutes and 13 seconds? >(Maybe it was routed via the University of Mars :-) ) > >Chris Well, in 253.239 seconds light can travel 75,971,700 klicks. Mars is (ruff-ly) around 120,000,000 klicks away right now, so it didn't get routed through the Protion gateway at U of Mars. My guess is that some VAX at a circular partical accellerator is going flakey and routed this ICMP into the partical beam path...round and round your data goes... --ritchey ruff ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!hp-pcd!orstcs!ruffwork