On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Irving wrote:
Name: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET Address: 198.41.0.4
And a ping yields ?
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=59 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=249 time=76 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=77 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=57 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=64 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=18 ttl=250 time=71 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=250 time=53 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=57 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!)
Interesting TTLs on those. I'm getting four for the price of one... biteme:~$ ping a.root-servers.net PING a.root-servers.net (198.41.0.4): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=76.6 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=94.1 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=106.0 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=126.0 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=85.0 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=93.5 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=106.0 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=115.1 ms (DUP!) Bill