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- From: stewart@tweety.cis.udel.edu (John Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Is there a Internet distance measure?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.152926.20104@udel.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:29:26 GMT
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- In article <dank.715818516@blacks> dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
- >I'm looking for an automatic way to select the 'nearest' host from a list,
- >
- >Anyone know how to do this?
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- There is a utility called "traceroute" that (among other things) counts the
- number of hops between your site and the destination.
-
- Good luck.
-
- /jws
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