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Hi Brett, Are you asking _why_ there are so many hops between yourself and the guy across town? Jane brett watson wrote: > > i sit behind cox-cable service at home, and in troubleshooting why my > connectivity is *so* horrible, i find the following traceroute. does > anyone do any sane routing anymore? does diameter matter (we used to talk > about it a long, long while ago). i guess i'm just old and crusty but this > seems to violate so many natural laws. > > i find in more random testing that i seem to be a minimum of 15 hops from > anything, and it's not just the # of hops, it's the *paths* i travel. > bouncing between two cities several times, on several different provider > networks, from one border to the other. > > wow. > > -b > > traceroute www.caida.org > > 1 10.113.128.1 30 unavailable > 2 68.2.6.25 10 ip68-2-6-25.ph.ph.cox.net > 3 68.2.0.26 40 ip68-2-0-26.ph.ph.cox.net > 4 68.2.0.18 50 ip68-2-0-18.ph.ph.cox.net > 5 68.2.0.10 20 ip68-2-0-10.ph.ph.cox.net > 6 68.2.0.70 10 ip68-2-0-70.ph.ph.cox.net > 7 68.2.14.13 10 chnddsrc02-gew0303.rd.ph.cox.net > 8 68.1.0.168 20 chndbbrc02-pos0101.rd.ph.cox.net > 9 68.1.0.146 30 dllsbbrc01-pos0102.rd.dl.cox.net > 10 12.119.145.125 40 unavailable > 11 12.123.17.54 30 gbr6-p30.dlstx.ip.att.net > 12 12.122.5.86 51 gbr4-p90.dlstx.ip.att.net > 13 12.122.2.114 80 gbr2-p30.kszmo.ip.att.net > 14 12.122.1.93 50 gbr1-p60.kszmo.ip.att.net > 15 12.122.2.42 70 gbr4-p40.sl9mo.ip.att.net > 16 12.122.2.205 60 gbr3-p40.cgcil.ip.att.net > 17 12.123.5.145 60 ggr1-p360.cgcil.ip.att.net > 18 207.88.50.253 90 unavailable > 19 64.220.0.189 80 ge5-3-1.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net > 20 65.106.1.86 70 p0-0-0-0.RAR2.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net > 21 65.106.0.34 60 p1-0-0.RAR1.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net > 22 65.106.0.14 120 p6-0-0.RAR2.LA-CA.us.xo.net > 23 64.220.0.99 80 ge1-0.dist1.lax-ca.us.xo.net > 24 206.111.14.238 211 a2-0d2.dist1.sdg-ca.us.xo.net > 25 209.31.222.150 80 unavailable > 26 198.17.46.56 140 pinot.sdsc.edu > 27 192.172.226.123 91 cider.caida.org begin:vcard n:Pawlukiewicz;Jane tel;cell:703 517-2591 tel;fax:703 289-5814 tel;work:703 289-5307 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Booz Allen Hamilton;Visit us on the Internet: <a href="http://boozallen.com">BoozOnline</a> adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:[email protected] title:Senior Consultant fn:Jane Pawlukiewicz end:vcard
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