ping download.fedora.redhat.com

[David Farning]

I am writing a channel selector for a package management tool to be used
with fedora.  Integrated in the selector is a ping utility to test
mirror connections.

While testing I noticed download.fedora.redhat is not responding to
pings.

traceroute hangs with


[dfarning at localhost dfarning]# traceroute download.fedora.redhat.com
traceroute: Warning: download.fedora.redhat.com has multiple addresses;
using 66.187.224.35
traceroute to download.fedora.redhat.com (66.187.224.35), 30 hops max,
38 byte packets
 1  adsl-68-78-235-254.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net (68.78.235.254)  11.904
ms  11.394 ms  10.581 ms
 2  dist2-vlan50.mdsnwi.ameritech.net (65.42.115.227)  10.816 ms  11.212
ms  13.291 ms
 3  bb1-fa2-0-0.mdsnwi.ameritech.net (65.42.115.115)  14.206 ms  12.174
ms  13.279 ms
 4  151.164.190.70 (151.164.190.70)  14.272 ms  16.392 ms  15.970 ms
 5  ex1-p1-0.chcgil.ameritech.net (151.164.190.2)  15.978 ms  15.142 ms 
15.976 ms
 6  sl-gw31-chi-8-4-TS14.sprintlink.net (160.81.109.237)  16.693 ms 
15.388 ms  15.236 ms
 7  sl-bb25-chi-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.117)  17.102 ms  15.898
ms  15.466 ms
 8  sl-bb20-chi-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.114)  15.525 ms  15.378
ms  16.262 ms
 9  chi-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.1.161)  16.224 ms  15.721 ms 
18.670 ms
10  chi-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.20.137)  18.483 ms  15.906 ms 
15.947 ms
11  atl-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.197)  43.375 ms  43.997 ms 
46.408 ms
     MPLS Label=207423 CoS=6 TTL=1 S=0
12  tpa-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.66)  54.524 ms  54.384 ms 
55.125 ms
     MPLS Label=137176 CoS=6 TTL=1 S=0
13  tpa-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.27.182)  53.882 ms  52.877 ms 
52.927 ms
14  cntr-02.tpf.qwest.net (205.171.27.78)  53.676 ms  52.845 ms  52.939
ms
15  msfc-03.tpf.qwest.net (63.146.176.42)  52.209 ms  52.321 ms  53.671
ms
16  * msfc.tpa.redhat.com (66.77.185.6)  53.045 ms !X *
17  * * msfc.tpa.redhat.com (66.77.185.6)  53.542 ms !X
18  * * *

Ping download.fedora.redhat.com also fails on a nearby windows box.

Weird. Is this intentional or a side effect of
download.fedora.redhat.com's redirect to ftp servers....or is the
problem at my end?  

Thanks
Dave Farning