[TriLUG] Understanding Traceroute

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
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> From one that really concerns me: ( mindspring on #2??? should not be there )

MindSpring/Earthlink/Time Warner have a complicated history. See for example:

http://www.earthlink.net/about/corp/history.faces

Seeing a mindspring hostname in your route if you're a Time Warner
customer is not remotely worrisome.

Cheers,
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Cristóbal Palmer
Systems Administrator
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill