PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (11/09/87)
Date: 5 Nov 87 07:37:27 GMT
From: jbs@eddie.mit.edu (Jeff Siegal)
I've been trying to ftp some files from ECLA.USC.EDU (on MILNET) to
MIT (on ARPANET) and have had no success for the past week. The Unix
ping program reports round-trip-times of 20-40 seconds and packet
loss rates varying between 70 and 100 percent.
Is there some current problem that is likely to be corrected, or
should we give up and resort to Federal Express and magtape?
Jeff Siegal
I have been having similar problems to Jeff's. I have been trying to
reach a couple of hosts at CMU, with little success. FTPs and TELNETs
timeout before the connection is established. None of my pings have
gotten through. On the few occasions (2 or 3 times in many hours) that
my FTPs did connect, logging in took about 2 minutes, and getting a 14k
file took more than 40 minutes, sometimes not even finishing...
Reaching the NIC has not been a problem, though. Is this a side
effect of 7.1 or isolated problems? I haven't been able to reach
the NOC, but will call them Monday...
-Philipnemnich@NRL-CMF.ARPA (11/13/87)
I have had the misfortune of having to cross the MILNET/ARPANET boundary for the past two months. I don't think the problems are related to the new PSN software, since I am not seeing that much of a difference since it was installed. Also, things are moving right along when I stay on the MILNET or the ARPANET. The gateways must be incredibly overloaded; I see lots of packet loss when pinging across the boundary. A question for those with the data: How evenly spread is the load among the ARPA/MILNET gateways? --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Temporarily at NRL, Washington, DC: +1 202 767 9044 bruce@think.com, ihnp4!think!bruce, bjn@mitvma.bitnet