verizon fios, northeast, routing issues?
Christopher Morrow
morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 20:28:18 UTC 2021
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 13:45 Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:
> Any Verizon folks here?
>
>
>
> I've been having some rather weird network issues lately - just reading
> email via IMAP, from home. Over a 1gig FIOS connection to a machine in
> a nearby Tierpoint data center that has LOTS of good connectivity.
>
> I just tried some traceroutes, and got some interesting results:
>
> These originate on a machine connected to a 1gig FIOS feed, and end at a
> machine, located in a Tierpoint datacenter, about 10 miles from here.
>
> traceroute to ntcorp.com (207.154.13.58), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
> 1 * fios_quantum_gateway (192.168.1.1) 3.530 ms 2.822 ms
> 2 * * *
> 3 100.41.27.110 (100.41.27.110) 14.970 ms 5.323 ms 6.306 ms
> 4 0.csi1.bstnmafr-mse01-bb-su1.alter.net (140.222.10.32) 11.069 ms
> 8.477 ms 17.097 ms
> 5 * * *
> 6 0.ae1.br1.bos30.alter.net (140.222.236.253) 17.121 ms 19.027 ms
> 0.ae2.br1.bos30.alter.net (140.222.236.255) 19.795 ms
> 7 * * *
> 8 colo4-dalla.bear1.boston1.level3.net (4.53.61.86) 2205.648 ms
> 8.331 ms 13.161 ms
> 9 static-33-65-203-66.axsne.net (66.203.65.33) 16.951 ms 13.791 ms
> static-145-65-203-66.axsne.net (66.203.65.145) 21.503 ms
> 10 server1.ntcorp.com (207.154.13.58) 17.872 ms 15.902 ms 14.415 ms
>
> Several things jump out:
>
> 1. alter.net is not a common path between here & there - usually a lower
> grade connection, when other backbones aren't working right
>
>
> Alternet is the domain used by legacy uunet equipment/ips, or was that
> domain "forever".
>
>
>
> 2. origin - alter.net - level.3 - endpoint is just bizarre, one would
>
> Why? "Br" is the role name used for sfp peer interconnect devices on
> uunet's network.
>
> think that the regional FIOS network has a direct connection to level.3
> (it also seems kind of odd that the packets are flowing from Acton MA,
> to Boston, and back out to Marlboro MA - there's an awful lot of fiber
> running along Rt. 495, and the networks are fairly dense around here)
>
> 3. The intermittent, high delays (factor of 10) jump out (also, when
> running ping tests, there seem to be intermittent periods of long
> sequences of timeouts)
>
> All in all it's really mucking with both streaming services, and simply
> posting emails (SMTP timeouts).
>
> All of which leads me to wonder if there's something mucked up with
> Verizon's routing tables (or a particular network interface).
>
> Any insights (or fixes) to be had?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>
>
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>
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