But, it reminds me of an article way back in Business Vision, where MTN claimed to have set up an IXP. What was that, if this is it?
On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 16:48 Africa/Kampala, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
Look at the ping times below.� I was pinging from the Infocom network.� Can you explain?
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=28 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=692 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=278 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=694 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=695 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=1985 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=696 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=697 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=98 ttl=43 time=113859 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=319 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=32 ttl=43 time=183972 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=320 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=321 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=99 ttl=43 time=125061 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=100 ttl=43 time=129657 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=323 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=324 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=101 ttl=43 time=137758 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=102 ttl=43 time=139458 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=326 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=10 ttl=43 time=238447 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=327 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=328 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=329 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=103 ttl=43 time=152666 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=330 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=104 ttl=43 time=156662 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=331 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=332 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=34 ttl=43 time=230929 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=333 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=105 ttl=43 time=165157 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=334 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=106 ttl=43 time=166781 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=335 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=336 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=337 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=107 ttl=43 time=172695 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=338 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=339 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=340 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=284785 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=108 ttl=43 time=181361 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=342 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=344 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=109 ttl=43 time=187260 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=347 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=348 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 213.177.165.210: icmp_seq=971 ttl=43 time=0.000 ms
>From 12.123.192.122: icmp_seq=4905 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.123.192.122 icmp_seq=4905 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.123.192.122 icmp_seq=4906 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.123.1.134 icmp_seq=4908 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.123.1.133 icmp_seq=4909 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 12.122.10.69 icmp_seq=4922 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.122.10.69 icmp_seq=4923 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.122.10.69 icmp_seq=4924 Time to live exceeded
>From 12.122.10.69 icmp_seq=4925 Time to live exceeded
>From 213.248.78.49 icmp_seq=4942 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 213.177.165.210 ping statistics ---
6177 packets transmitted, 137 received, +10 errors, 97% loss, time 6178341ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.000/20193.546/284785.236/57555.770 ms, pipe 4578
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