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Re: Curious question on hop identity...

  • From: Adam Rothschild
  • Date: Thu Dec 14 02:51:48 2006

On 2006-12-14-02:24:52, Fergie <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may be far afield insofar as topic fodder

Not in the slightest.  To the contrary, it's one of the more on-topic
postings I've seen as of late, and I mean that with all sincerity.

> I am curious if anyone knows exactly what these two hops [9] [10]
> below, actually are?
[...]
>   8   161 ms   157 ms     *     68.87.226.130
>   9   169 ms   185 ms   171 ms  12.116.90.17
>  10   197 ms   198 ms   196 ms  12.122.114.66
>  11   157 ms   169 ms   175 ms  ggr3-ge110.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.169]
>  12   145 ms   149 ms   148 ms  192.205.33.82
>  13   182 ms   196 ms   209 ms  ae-2-54.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net

If I had to guess, I'd say 9 is a /30 (/31?) on Comcast's transit
interface, and 10 is a backbone device of some sort.  Suffice it to
say, AT&T doesn't consider maintaining accurate (or even inaccurate,
for that matter) PTR records a priority.  Some recent faves include:

  6  ggr3-ge00.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.123.0.97)  1.538 ms  1.400 ms  1.422 ms
  7  att-gw.dc.aol.com (192.205.32.2)  1.775 ms  1.816 ms  1.847 ms
  8  0.ge-5-1-0.XL4.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.121)  1.701 ms  1.742 ms  14.988 ms

  5  cw-gw.n54ny.ip.att.net (192.205.32.197)  0.648 ms  0.635 ms ggr3-p3122.n54ny.ip.att.net (192.205.33.117)  0.838 ms
  6  tbr1-p012204.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.122.82.22)  1.596 ms  1.759 ms  1.466 ms

  4 savvis-gw.cgcil02ck4.ip.att.net (208.175.10.94) [AS 3561] 56 msec 60 msec
    allegiance-gw.dlstx.ip.att.net (192.205.32.225) [AS 7018] 196 msec
  5 tbr1-p014001.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.123.6.34) [AS 7018]

  4 ggr2-p310.sffca.ip.att.net (12.123.12.18) [AS 7018] 32 msec 16 msec 20 msec
  5 att-gw.ashburn.eli.net (192.205.32.74) [AS 7018] 20 msec 20 msec 20 msec
  6 0.so-2-0-0.XL1.SCL2.ALTER.NET (152.63.57.50) [AS 701] 20 msec 16 msec 16 msec

-a