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More evidence that CenturyLink is broken
I have a bot that runs three times a day at 7, 9:45, and 12 noon that pulls an RSS feed for the website I administer, embeds the last 10 article titles onto an image and posts that image to the site'...
Should be the same as my Mac... FreeBSD version.
MarkJFine wrote:Should be the same as my Mac... FreeBSD version.
Well, again thanks. I may abandon my attempts to understand all of this, especially since today I did another trace to aol.com, and found that many of the hops past the first 6 had disappeared. Yesterday I had several hops to telia, which is in Sweden, and hinet which is in Taiwan. All gone today, aol.com went from 22 hops to 15 hops overnight.
Ahhh! It just occurred to me that the routing table could be constantly changing, and this makes the hops change also. Question is, do I really need to know all of this stuff while retired and 72 years old? I'll probably stick with it for a while, I've always loved useless information. :>)>
Yes, it is dynamic and CenturyLink's backbone controls much of the routing table by virtue of where it sends you first. Sometimes it's due to known down links. Sometimes it's because they're just that screwed up. Clearly my view is the latter.
Seems like the random 1 minute drop outs are extending up to 2 minutes or more in some cases. Not only from what I see from SDO, but also on links between two CL servers (the Cloudflare LA server and a DigitalOcean server), and between my webserver in Pittsburgh and Twitter.
Also, just a thought, but the dropouts may feasibly be responsible for the spate of dropped calls I see being reported due to the link timing out.
One instance when more is not better. I hope someone's doing something about CL's issue(s).
