I'm sorry that I ever questioned the stability of agnes. We seem to be dealing with a severe case of Micro$ofteritis here:

[janjaap@ZOO-station janjaap]$ traceroute agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de traceroute to agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de (132.252.78.226), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 router (130.89.220.1) 2.711 ms 3.995 ms 2.914 ms 2 Enschede2.router.surfnet.nl (145.41.162.97) 3.528 ms 2.835 ms 2.879 ms 3 BR1.Enschede.surf.net (145.41.8.109) 2.121 ms 6.237 ms 4.252 ms 4 BR2.Amsterdam.surf.net (145.41.7.30) 5.64 ms 14.08 ms 8.182 ms 5 BR1.Amsterdam.surf.net (145.41.8.101) 7.403 ms 12.607 ms 24.147 ms 6 Amsterdam1.belsurf.net (192.12.54.9) 7.402 ms 6.613 ms 9.705 ms 7 Amsterdam6.att-unisource.net (192.12.54.2) 8.483 ms 8.549 ms 7.352 ms 8 amsterdam5.att-unisource.net (195.206.64.17) 318.871 ms 361.2 ms 18.563 ms 9 frankfurt5.att-unisource.net (195.206.64.22) 17.684 ms 21.509 ms 23.506 ms 10 frankfurt6.att-unisource.net (195.206.64.42) 22.506 ms 43.934 ms 46.413 ms 11 DE.ten-34.net (195.206.64.62) 225.805 ms 264.866 ms 287.893 ms 12 ir-frankfurt1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (193.203.227.18) 33.907 ms 20.889 ms 21.918 ms 13 ZR-Frankfurt1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.144.98) 22.164 ms 22.444 ms 23.534 ms 14 ZR-Koeln1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.144.33) 75.619 ms 211.154 ms 242.466 ms 15 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.102) 27.147 ms 28.515 ms 36.096 ms 16 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 28.153 ms 30.981 ms 24.481 ms 17 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 28.175 ms 27.505 ms 27.928 ms 18 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 251.871 ms 30.899 ms 30.939 ms 19 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 30.12 ms 33.21 ms 39.284 ms 20 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 27.753 ms 28.763 ms 28.15 ms 21 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 46.955 ms 32.169 ms 37.127 ms 22 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 37.985 ms 35.388 ms 26.641 ms 23 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 28.455 ms 30.814 ms 30.428 ms 24 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 47.757 ms 29.068 ms 30.278 ms 25 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 28.909 ms 49.848 ms 38.464 ms 26 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 42.089 ms 31.354 ms 35.137 ms 27 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 30.687 ms 44.349 ms 70.558 ms 28 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 33.559 ms 49.084 ms 36.502 ms 29 Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.165) 36.483 ms 45.423 ms 33.041 ms 30 KR-Uni-Essen1.WiN-IP.DFN.DE (188.1.6.166) 34.048 ms 32.716 ms 33.079 ms

Damn, you shouldn't use NT for serious work :-(

JJ

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