strange behavior

Carl Hillsman (carl@intrepid.net)
Sun, 26 Nov 1995 14:32:30 -0500

i've seen this ouce before, but i don't know what fixed it or what is
happening.

i have a user that is haing problems accessing our pop server. she is
coing into a pm2e and where i do a ping on her ip from a remote machine i
get the following:

loki:~% ping dd
PING dd.intrepid.net (204.71.127.87): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=605.2 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=669.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=720.7 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=774.2 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=830.3 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=884.0 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=937.1 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=991.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=1040.7 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=1100.5 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=10 ttl=59 time=1153.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=11 ttl=59 time=1207.2 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=12 ttl=59 time=1240.8 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=14 ttl=59 time=307.2 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=15 ttl=59 time=360.6 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=16 ttl=59 time=416.0 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=17 ttl=59 time=471.5 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=18 ttl=59 time=524.2 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=19 ttl=59 time=554.1 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=20 ttl=59 time=631.3 ms
64 bytes from 204.71.127.87: icmp_seq=21 ttl=59 time=687.4 ms
.....

there is no activity from here when i am seeing this.it
continues.....down to 300ms....up to ~1200, then back down. sure looks
like somthing funky with the routing, but i have noidea what.

any thoughts?

thanks....

carl