There are intermittent timeouts upon doing traceroute to an IP address. What impact does it have on say when you are trying to connect to a DB from an App server?
traceroute to <IP>(<IP>), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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6 * <dns name> (<IP>) 0.144 ms 0.096 ms