Lachlan passed away in January 2010. As a memorial, this site remains as he left it.
Therefore the information on this site may not be current or accurate and should not be relied upon.
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Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia
Are you having internet reliability Problems reaching Bluehaze.com.au in Melbourne, Australia?
Lachlan's Homepage is at
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au
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Announcement - 5th September 2001
If you are browsing from Europe and have reliability problems hitting this site, it could be that your network's DNS server has bad defaults for the TTD (Time To Die) on the TCP-IP network packets. As some backbone internet providers in the UK, US and Ausutralia put the incoming TCP-IP packets through a a few dozen internal routers, depending on the time of day, DNS caches, etc; the TCP-IP packet has probably died before it gets here to bluehaze.com.au. Setting a larger default TTD on the DNS server generally fixes this (it may have to be recompiled into the kernel depending on what operating system you are using). E.g., in the following default traceroute from Europe, the packets have bombed near Singapore(?) (did not even make it to Australia as the TCP-IP packets bounced around bbnplanet.net for a dozen hops) (use traceroute -m 50 to increase the number of hops traceroute reports.
30 POS2-0.paix-core1.ix.singtel.com (202.160.250.46) 177 ms (ttl=233!) 179 ms
(ttl=233!) 178 ms (ttl=233!)
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Further Information Via Tony
The Public DNS Service
At
http://www.granitecanyon.com/
"The Public DNS Service is a public service provided by Granite Canyon Group, LLC. The Service offers both primary and secondary DNS free of charge to anyone who asks. The Service maintains UPS protected FreeBSD servers that satisfy DNS queries. The servers are geographically separated and all are connected to the Internet via 7x24 dedicated lines with disjoint routes to the Internet's North American backbones. "
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From: tonys
To: Lachlan Cranswick [l.cranswick@dl.ac.uk]
Subject: Hops
> Okay - have submitted bluehaze (see below)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
BTW - just talking to [Internet Gure Omega (not real name)] and he rang
someone in ITS to ask re hop maximums. Apparently it started out as 16 in
the early days, then went to 30, and now can be more than this due to
smart routers or something.
Re our large number of hops, he drew me a diagram of a "router hotel" which
he said is common. Link comes in from (eg) .au then goes to another router
because this 1st one only handles traffic direct to (eg) .ca, .fr, .za -
this 2nd router similarly doesn't do .uk directly so again it gets passed
onto another one, etc. Basically a case of what happens when you have to
process 200 domains with only 10 or 15 routers in the rack.
Cheers,
Tony
All information in this post is true in some sense, false in some sense,
and meaningless in some sense.
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I found this of interest because it was posted on September 5, 2001.