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Re: Monitoring from one place on the globe

To: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
Subject: Re: Monitoring from one place on the globe
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <alvestrand@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:24:44 +0200
Cc: aroot@ops.ietf.org
Delivery-date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:22:55 -0700
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At 16:24 29/09/2000 +0200, Simon Leinen wrote:
>So I'm afraid that standard traceroute is not sufficient to perform
>the SUCCESS/FAILURE indication that you have in mind.  Maybe you
>should just ping the anycast address to find out reachability and
>response time.

but then why does it work towards the Brazil one?

A better traceroute script would simply check the last line for a failure 
indication (!H, * * * or similar), and assumee success otherwise.
A few minutes needed...

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