[RLUG] linux success story

[Brian Chrisman]

Sebastian Smith wrote:
> Who is your ISP?  I experienced a lot of packet loss the other day, 
> and had trouble tracking the issue down.
>
The traceroutes suggested the problem was on the border of HE/Telia... 
HE said it was a Telia internal issue.
Yesterday we also notice a problem with a Level3 customer in the LA area.

> - Sebastian
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Brian Chrisman wrote:
>
>> Okay.. could've been any OS with sshd... but it was ssh to the rescue.
>> Customer calls up complaining of multi-minute page load times.  
>> Traceroutes show a major slow down between data center (Site A) and 
>> customer site.  The slowdown doesn't involve either party's ISP.  I 
>> call up my ISP, they say it's a known issue, but not their issue, and 
>> that they don't have a route around it.
>> Hmm.. Site B <--> Site A is fast...  Site B <--> Customer is fast... 
>> Site A <--> Customer is slow (hey, wasn't the internet designed 
>> specifically to deal with these issues... oh wait.. that's another 
>> rant).
>> So the obvious solution is to effectively route for the idiotic ISP 
>> with an ssh port forward and another apache vhost.
>> Yay ssh..
>>
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