draft-netrail-packet-over-aol-dialup-00.txt

Sun Mar 18 23:29:01 UTC 2001

missng at subtopia$ traceroute www.dsli.com
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 207.99.106.2 @ hme0:2
traceroute to www.dsli.com (207.31.125.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  nac-gw.colo1.psnynj.informationwave.net (207.99.106.1)  1.254 ms  0.771 ms  0.626 ms
 2  209.123.11.153 (209.123.11.153)  1.558 ms  1.752 ms  1.517 ms
 3  global-crossing.transit.nac.net (207.99.10.2)  1.661 ms  2.550 ms  1.644 ms
 4  s3-0-1-45M.br1.NYC2.gblx.net (206.132.29.161)  2.750 ms  3.759 ms  3.864 ms
 5  pos2-1-155M.cr2.NYC2.gblx.net (206.132.249.193)  3.274 ms  3.072 ms  4.230 ms
 6  pos1-0-622M.cr1.ATL1.gblx.net (206.132.115.94)  23.473 ms  22.354 ms  22.223 ms
 7  pos4-1-0-155M.br1.ATL1.gblx.net (208.178.116.26)  22.105 ms  22.887 ms  21.876 ms
 8  t3-1-0-3--0.pr1.Atlanta.GA.us.netrail.net (205.215.1.65)  24.902 ms  24.610 ms  25.988 ms
 9  ge-2-1-0--0.tr1.Atlanta1.GA.us.netrail.net (205.215.60.193)  24.914 ms  27.209 ms  26.658 ms
10  at-0-2-0--4.tr1.Miami2.FL.us.netrail.net (209.44.75.77)  53.625 ms  53.938 ms  54.092 ms
11  DSLICorp-10M.Miami2.FL.US.netrail.net (205.215.25.38)  60.638 ms  55.186 ms  66.316 ms
12  ACA80105.ipt.aol.com (172.168.1.5)  68.131 ms  57.195 ms  66.348 ms
13  IWC-W21A.MIA.netrail.net (207.31.90.5)  61.419 ms  61.708 ms  61.906 ms
14  user.dsli10.com (207.31.125.10)  60.042 ms  59.769 ms  76.960 ms

Umm...either NetRail is passing traffic through an AOL dialup with amazing compression
and keeping latency down, or someone looked at 192.168 and 172.16 and decided to add
a netblock to RFC1918 without letting anyone else know...
-- 
Omachonu Ogali
missnglnk at informationwave.net
http://www.informationwave.net