Strange traceroute result to VM in EC2, Singapore

Thu Aug 6 16:11:15 UTC 2015

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find this bizzare because even when the traceroute doesnt work, I am
> actually able to ping and access the machine.
>
> I know that the VM responds to traceroutes, since it did respond to my
> traceroute when i was on the other broadband network.
>
> So i really fail to understand why the traceroute on the other network
> failed.
>
> Any pointers on this would be very helpful.

the las hop reported in the 'fails' traceroute is an amazon ip
address, I suspect some miscarriage of packet-justice inside AWS is
happening. You asked them already I guess?