Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Five-nines and the phone company?

So much for 99.999% reliability:

devin-heitmuellers-macbook:~ devinheitmueller$ traceroute 198.6.1.5
traceroute to 198.6.1.5 (198.6.1.5), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1)  1.994 ms  1.589 ms  2.020 ms
 2  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  3.059 ms  3.345 ms  2.808 ms
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
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