From 2 different locations, having a lot of problems with host18:

--- host18.linode.com ping statistics ---
42 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 50% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 123.698/181.197/231.281/23.338 ms

trace:
5 20 ms 10 ms 20 ms ge-6-1-5.hsa1.Cleveland1.Level3.net [209.244.22.
105]
6 <10 ms 10 ms 10 ms ge-7-0-0.mpls1.Cleveland1.Level3.net [209.244.22
.97]
7 50 ms 71 ms 130 ms so-6-0-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net [209.247.11
.133]
8 40 ms 40 ms 10 ms so-6-0-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [209.244.1
1.10]
9 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms Henet-Level3-vlan.Washington1.Level3.net [209.24
4.219.134]
10 80 ms 90 ms 120 ms pos7-0.gsr12012.pao.he.net [216.218.254.205]
11 101 ms 100 ms 80 ms pos2-0.gsr12012.fmt.he.net [64.62.249.121]
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