Traceroute explanation
Fred Baker
fred at cisco.com
Thu Dec 8 21:23:43 UTC 2011
This is just a guess, but I'll bet the route changed while you were measuring it.
Traceroute sends a request, awaits a response, sends a request, ... Suppose that the route was
172.28.0.1 -> 10.16.0.2
-> 41.200.16.1
-> 172.17.2.25
-> 213.140.58.10
-> 195.22.195.125
-> 4.69.151.13
-> 213.200.68.61
-> somewhere else
and after the test got that far, two systems got inserted into the path before level3, resulting in the route entering level3 at a different point, 4.69.141.249. What you now have is
172.28.0.1 -> 10.16.0.2
-> 41.200.16.1
-> 172.17.2.25
-> 213.140.58.10
-> 195.22.195.125
-> unknown
-> unknown
-> 4.69.141.249
-> 77.67.66.154
-> and so on
The effect would be to get a result like this.
Next time you see something like this, suggestion: repeat the traceroute and see what you get.
On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Meftah Tayeb wrote:
> Hey folks,
> i see a strange traceroute there
>
> Détermination de l'itinéraire vers www.rri.ro [193.231.72.52]
> avec un maximum de 30 sauts :
>
> 1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.28.0.1
> 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms localhost [10.16.0.2]
> 3 10 ms 10 ms 13 ms 41.200.16.1
> 4 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms 172.17.2.25
> 5 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 213.140.58.10
> 6 34 ms 31 ms 55 ms pos14-0.palermo9.pal.seabone.net [195.22.197.125
> ]
> 7 34 ms 33 ms 35 ms ae-5-6.bar2.marseille1.level3.net [4.69.151.13]
> 8 106 ms 68 ms 67 ms xe-1-1-0.mil10.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.68.61]
> 9 74 ms 73 ms 74 ms ae-1-12.bar1.budapest1.level3.net [4.69.141.249]
> 10 63 ms 63 ms 79 ms euroweb-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.66.154]
> 11 85 ms 84 ms 84 ms v15-core1.stsisp.ro [193.151.28.1]
> 12 100 ms 100 ms 102 ms inet-crli1.qrli1.buh.ew.ro [81.24.28.226]
> 13 81 ms 81 ms 81 ms 193.231.72.10
> 14 92 ms 92 ms 93 ms ip4-89-238-225-90.euroweb.ro [89.238.225.90]
> 15 89 ms 89 ms 89 ms webrri.rri.ro.72.231.193.in-addr.arpa [193.231.7
> 2.52]
> Itinéraire déterminé.
> C:\Documents and Settings\TAYEB>
> Seabone, then level3, then Tinet, then level3, then tinet ?
> if is that a routing stufs that i don't know, please let me know :)
> i never saw that befaure
>
> Meftah Tayeb
> IT Consulting
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> Mobile: +213660347746
>
>
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