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> How can you be so sure the hosts you were hitting with pings and > traceroutes were the same hosts? It's quite possible smoke and mirrors > were in between (smoke: web directors answering the pings... mirrors: > anycast addressing with policy routing). > > It's getting pretty wierd to debug IP these days... sure, i was admittedly making some blind assumptions. i didn't check any dns entries. then again we've all seen a few other "media events" fall over and die because folks haven't done the server/os/app side very well. -brett
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