Re: OT: Net traffic jams?

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  Mon,
15 Jan 2007 15:54:19 -0500

Patricia:

> Now first of all, I'm puzzled by the timestamps.

It's easy. For example, here:

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:50:16 -0500 (EST)

the three elements "14:50:16", "-0500", and "(EST)" are in
apposition with each other (to use a term a grammarian will
understand ;-) ). 14:50:16 is local time, which is 5 hours behind
GMT, which is Eastern Standard Time. To translate the local time
into GMT, you need to SUBTRACT the second value from the first:

14:50:16 EST - (-05:00:00) = 14:50:16 + 05:00:00 = 19:50:16 GMT

> Yes, I think the Upenn server may have a problem. Whom do we
> notify and how?

It would appear so. The time stamps are showing long gaps between
the last hop from UPenn and arrival at the destination server. I'll
ask UPenn tech support about it. Stay tuned.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx