other routing anomalies

Wed Apr 17 02:00:55 UTC 1996

For the last week the *ONLY* way I can hold a connection to tigger at 
jvnc.net has been to log into a net access machine in philly and telnet 
from there to tigger rather than telnet directly from my house.  Both 
connections go througth the CIX to get me 20 miles up the road in New 
jersey!!  When I get packets from this connection it is like a 1200 baud 
connect.  The infuriating thing is that after giving me 1200 baud service 
for a minute or two, it will stop for any where from up to 45 seconds to 
3 minutes before moving a single character!!!!!

I have complained to jvnc.  They say they are laboring mightily to solve 
the problem and that a LOT of their users are affected.  Not much luck so 
far ...still 300 baud service.  BUT a traceroute from tigger to a 
commercial web site in wash DC run by PSI goes through MCI's MAE EAST ++ 
router which is where *MY* packets oughtta go rather than to California 
and back.  Anyone have any idea why?  The person I asked at JVNC today 
didn't.  Here are the two traces done within the last 30 minutes.

JVNC To my router via cix

traceroute to 205.164.155.1 (205.164.155.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  nomad-eth0 (128.121.50.50)  2 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 2  liberty-hssi1/0-1 (130.94.40.250)  11 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 3  waters-ser1/6 (130.94.45.249)  77 ms *  61 ms
 4  ness-ser4 (130.94.17.250)  89 ms  126 ms  116 ms
 5  goldengate-ser8 (130.94.15.65)  204 ms  186 ms  163 ms
 6  cix-jvnc.west.cix.net (149.20.6.1)  194 ms  152 ms  149 ms
 7  * hlc.west.cix.net (149.20.64.32)  109 ms  139 ms
 8  hlc-east.gw.hlc.net (205.214.32.1)  128 ms *  159 ms
 9  * mae-east.netaxs.com (192.41.177.87)  176 ms  172 ms
10  wynd-mae-east-gw.netaxs.com (207.8.160.5)  374 ms  198 ms  194 ms
11  wynd-mfs/k2ne/goldner-we0.netaxs.com (207.8.186.88)  226 ms  127 ms  
160 ms
12  k2ne-wynd-t1.tty0.netaxs.com (206.161.91.14)  133 ms  184 ms  158 ms
13  router-ewing.netaxs.com (205.164.155.1)  167 ms  221 ms  199 ms

Traceroute JVNC to comcast web site via mae east:

tigger-gcook> traceroute www.comcast.com
traceroute to www.comcast.inter.net (38.15.13.172), 30 hops max, 40 byte 
packets
 1  nomad-eth0 (128.121.50.50)  2 ms  4 ms  3 ms
 2  liberty-hssi1/0-1 (130.94.40.250)  37 ms  15 ms  13 ms
 3  border2-hssi2-0.NewYork.mci.net (204.70.45.9)  23 ms  14 ms  24 ms
 4  core1-fddi-1.NewYork.mci.net (204.70.3.17)  13 ms  12 ms  16 ms
 5  core1-hssi-2.Washington.mci.net (204.70.1.5)  20 ms  19 ms  19 ms
 6  borderx1-fddi0-0.Washington.mci.net (204.70.2.4)  18 ms  22 ms  18 ms
 7  mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.102)  26 ms  19 ms  
21 ms
 8  * mae-east.psi.net (192.41.177.245)  35 ms  32 ms
 9  38.1.2.14 (38.1.2.14)  21 ms  37 ms  28 ms
10  www5a-gw.inter.net (38.15.1.40)  36 ms  25 ms  52 ms
11  www5a.inter.net (38.15.13.2)  31 ms *  28 ms

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