On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
What the hell is a !Q in a traceroute?
I seem to recall hearing (back in the mists of time) that it was a source quench coming back, but don't take that as gospel...
nyc6#trace www.demon.net
Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.demon.net (193.195.0.1)
1 nac-wisper-10Mb.nac.net (207.99.122.4) 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 2 nac-wisper-10Mb.nac.net (207.99.122.4) !Q * lth1-e1.uk-core.uk.wisper.net (193.164.160.10) [AS 6765] 92 msec 3 linx-1.router.demon.net (194.68.130.13) [AS 5459] 112 msec 108 msec 112 msec 4 telehouse-1.router.demon.net (194.159.252.51) [AS 2529] 112 msec 112 msec 104 msec 5 demon.www.demon.net (194.159.255.45) [AS 2529] 112 msec * 116 msec
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