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Posted by prox, from Charlotte, on April 05, 2008 at 15:57 local (server) time

I think it's broken.  Yes, floating point arithmetic seems to be broken on atlantis:

% ping -c4 -n vega                                                                  
PING vega.prolixium.com (10.3.5.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.3.5.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 10.3.5.103: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 10.3.5.103: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 10.3.5.103: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.000 ms

--- vega.prolixium.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.000/0.000/0.000/0.000 ms
% traceroute -n chronos
traceroute to chronos (10.3.6.102), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.3.5.254  0.000 ms  0.000 ms  0.000 ms
 2  10.3.7.1  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000 ms
 3  10.3.6.102  4.000 ms  4.000 ms  4.000 ms

I think it might be a glibc problem, but other boxes aren't affected…

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