L3: Google from DC via the Netherlands?

Peter Beckman beckman at angryox.com
Fri Feb 6 17:05:41 UTC 2009


I'm OK to that IP as well, but when I query www.google.com, I get multiple
IPs, but here are the ones that in in 147:

DNS Server                  IP              Route (for me)
205.234.170.217 (tiggee)    74.125.79.147   Amsterdam
208.67.222.222 (opendns)    64.233.183.147  Amsterdam
4.2.2.1 (verizon)           74.125.19.147   San Jose
198.6.1.3 (uu.net/verizon)  74.125.47.147   Washington DC (yay)

That's a lot of different answers for the same question!

So maybe the problem is that some DNS servers are smarter than others.  I
am on Verizon FIOS in Northern VA (DC), and use tiggee's free resolving
service, http://www.resolvingnameserver.com/freerns.html (they are great
for DNS hosting).

I used to use 198.6.1.1, but it seems so did everyone else who used to work
at UUnet, and they shut it off.  Rather than using 198.6.1.3 everywhere
(which I'm sure the network folk would appreciate), I found Tiggee's
resolving name service, which is nicely anycasted.

So what's the deal here?  Caching?

Beckman

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Wallace Keith wrote:

> Looks ok from Boston-
>
> 3  core2.po1-bbnet1.bsn.pnap.net (63.251.128.18)  2.590 ms  3.988 ms
> 3.181 ms
> 4  207.88.182.33.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.182.33)  26.636 ms  7.651 ms
> 11.977 ms
> 5  207.88.182.18.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.182.18)  7.603 ms  8.174 ms
> 7.405 ms
> 6  216.239.49.217 (216.239.49.217)  8.219 ms  8.388 ms  7.510 ms
> 7  72.14.236.213 (72.14.236.213)  8.468 ms 66.249.94.235
> (66.249.94.235)  16.799 ms 72.14.236.213 (72.14.236.213)  9.196 ms
> 8  72.14.238.138 (72.14.238.138)  27.405 ms 209.85.248.216
> (209.85.248.216)  16.352 ms  15.785 ms
> 9  72.14.238.235 (72.14.238.235)  15.691 ms  14.641 ms  15.628 ms
> 10  209.85.255.194 (209.85.255.194)  39.077 ms 72.14.239.136
> (72.14.239.136)  31.206 ms 64.233.174.46 (64.233.174.46)  32.528 ms
> 11  209.85.254.247 (209.85.254.247)  28.897 ms 209.85.254.249
> (209.85.254.249)  29.192 ms  29.649 ms
> 12  209.85.255.194 (209.85.255.194)  29.326 ms gw-in-f100.google.com
> (74.125.67.100)  28.393 ms 209.85.255.194 (209.85.255.194)  35.464 ms
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Beckman [mailto:beckman at angryox.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:01 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: L3: Google from DC via the Netherlands?
>
> Seems strange.  Had a partial outage on Verizon network this morning
> around
> 9:50am EST, then when it came back around 10:05am, google routed via the
> Netherlands.  My guess is that there's some sort of routing problem
> making
> my fastest or least cost route go to the Netherlands, but I wanted to
> find
> out if there was an ongoing issue, or if the Netherlands simply now
> serves
> the US East Coast for google.
>
> Isn't there anything closer?  Or is this just indicative of an ongoing
> L3
> outage?  I'm guessing it's cheaper/faster to get to Google somewhere in
> the
> US, but maybe someone on NANOG knows better than I do.
>
> HOST: octal.angryox.com           Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst
> StDev
>   1. tomato.angryox.com            0.0%    20    0.6   0.6   0.5   0.7
> 0.0
>   2. 10.1.41.15                    0.0%    20    2.1   4.2   1.9  42.8
> 9.1
>   3. p4-2.lcr-02.washdc.verizon-g  0.0%    20    1.5   1.5   1.3   2.3
> 0.2
>   4. 130.81.29.218                 0.0%    20    2.0   7.3   2.0  45.0
> 11.9
>   5. 0.so-1-2-0.xl4.iad8.alter.ne  0.0%    20    2.4   2.4   2.3   3.3
> 0.2
>   6. 0.ge-3-3-0.br2.iad8.alter.ne  0.0%    20    2.4   2.4   2.3   2.5
> 0.1
>   7. te-11-3-0.edge1.washington4.  0.0%    20    2.4  12.2   2.3 151.2
> 33.6
>   8. vlan99.csw4.washington1.leve  0.0%    20    3.1   7.3   3.0  15.0
> 4.3
>   9. ae-92-92.ebr2.washington1.le  0.0%    20    3.2   3.3   3.1   3.6
> 0.1
>  10. ae-42-42.ebr2.frankfurt1.lev  0.0%    20   94.1  94.4  93.7 104.0
> 2.3
>  11. ae-2-2.ebr1.dusseldorf1.leve  0.0%    20  106.1 100.6  95.8 107.0
> 4.1
>  12. ae-46-106.ebr2.dusseldorf1.l  0.0%    20  100.4 103.1  98.0 111.0
> 4.3
>  13. ae-41.ebr1.amsterdam1.level3  0.0%    20  107.2  99.9  94.4 107.7
> 5.7
>  14. ae-11-53.car1.amsterdam1.lev  0.0%    20   94.5  95.0  94.1 102.6
> 2.0
>  15. 212.72.42.14                  0.0%    20   94.9  98.8  94.5 133.9
> 12.0
>  16. 209.85.254.250                0.0%    20   95.4  95.4  94.8  97.0
> 0.5
>  17. 72.14.233.114                 0.0%    20  100.9 107.2 100.7 140.6
> 9.7
>  18. 209.85.255.166                0.0%    20  108.9 109.1 107.5 117.3
> 2.1
>  19. 209.85.255.110                5.0%    20  109.5 112.4 106.3 119.9
> 4.7
>  20. ew-in-f147.google.com         5.0%    20  107.9 108.0 107.5 108.9
> 0.3
>
> Fri Feb  6 10:56:09 2009
>                                             Packets               Pings
>  Host                                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg
> Best  Wrst StDev
>  1. tomato.angryox.com                     0.0%     8    0.6   0.6
> 0.5   0.6   0.0
>  2. 10.1.41.15                             0.0%     8    2.1   2.4
> 2.1   3.3   0.4
>  3. P4-2.LCR-02.WASHDC.verizon-gni.net     0.0%     8    1.4   1.4
> 1.3   1.5   0.1
>  4. 130.81.29.218                          0.0%     8    2.1   9.1
> 1.9  59.0  20.2
>  5. 0.so-1-2-0.XL4.IAD8.ALTER.NET          0.0%     8    2.4   2.4
> 2.3   2.6   0.1
>     0.so-6-1-0.XL4.IAD8.ALTER.NET
>  6. 0.ge-7-1-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET          0.0%     8    2.5   2.5
> 2.4   2.6   0.1
>     0.ge-3-3-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET
>     0.ge-5-1-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET
>     0.ge-7-0-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET
>  7. te-11-3-0.edge1.Washington4.level3.net 0.0%     7    2.4   6.0
> 2.3  27.2   9.4
>  8. vlan79.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net     0.0%     7    3.2   8.3
> 3.2  13.5   4.2
>  9. ae-72-72.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net   0.0%     7    3.7   3.5
> 3.1   4.0   0.3
> 10. ae-44-44.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net    0.0%     7   94.5  94.9  94.4
> 97.2   1.0
> 11. ae-2-2.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net     0.0%     7  106.2 100.7  96.4
> 106.7   4.6
> 12. ae-46-106.ebr2.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net  0.0%     7  107.6 106.1 100.1
> 108.9   3.0
> 13. ae-41.ebr1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net       0.0%     7   95.5 100.6  95.4
> 108.3   5.9
> 14. ae-11-55.car1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net    0.0%     7   95.3  95.8  94.4
> 98.7   1.5
> 15. GOOGLE-INC.car1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net  0.0%     7   97.0  96.7  96.5
> 97.0   0.2
> 16. 209.85.254.250                         0.0%     7  102.0  97.0  95.7
> 102.0   2.2
> 17. 72.14.233.114                          0.0%     7  107.5 104.8 101.5
> 107.5   2.7
>     209.85.248.79
> 18. 209.85.255.70                          0.0%     7  109.8 109.1 107.9
> 110.3   0.8
>     72.14.239.123
>     209.85.255.166
>     209.85.255.20
> 19. 209.85.255.98                          0.0%     7  118.3 114.9 109.7
> 120.2   4.6
>     209.85.255.102
>     209.85.255.110
> 20. ew-in-f103.google.com                  0.0%     7  110.0 109.4 108.0
> 110.6   1.1
>
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> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet
> Guy
> beckman at angryox.com
> http://www.angryox.com/
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