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Comment by baldeagle

9 years ago

I like how the traditional 'five whys' approach wouldn't work here... the answer was in a 'how'.

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DougBTX  9 years ago

Perhaps a "why is there a timeout?" would have lead to a "why is this traceroure so long?" then "why is there a loop?" and "why is my test router in the list?"

jedimastert  9 years ago

> 'five whys' approach

Can you explain this a bit more?

  • resoluteteeth  9 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

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