[Wellington-pm] Connecting to Perl repository

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Wed May 5 16:11:34 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 11:05 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 09:37 +1200, Dan Horne wrote:
> > # tcptraceroute cpan.catalyst.net.nz
> > traceroute to cpan.catalyst.net.nz (36.4.1.48), 30 hops max, 40 byte
> > packets
> 
> Why on earth was it telling you that cpan.catalyst.net.nz is at
> 36.4.1.48 ?

Well spotted Andrew.  The IP address for cpan.catalyst.net.nz is
202.78.240.39 and it certainly hasn't been changing.  I wonder if
there's some funky transparent proxying going on.  Or maybe even a DNS
server with a corrupted cache.

Very odd.

Grant



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