The tvguide.com web site uses windows. If you send packets to it (ping,
connecting to HTTP port 80, etc.) you will see 10-40 replies for each of
your packets. The site is, not surprising, slow.
They have been fiddling with DNS and Mike O'Shaughnessy, who discovered this,
and I suspect that they tried to implement "round robin" routing to
distribute their load over multiple windows servers but goofed and caused
each request to go to *all* servers.
Being good citizens we did inform them of this problem last week to
no avail.
Bob Toxen
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