From San Jose to Google.com - via Europe

Fri Feb 6 23:35:54 UTC 2009

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I was kind of wondering why my connectivity slowed to a crawl a little
while ago...

Any idea what is up with this? From Comcast in San Jose:

%tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.39.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

[snip]

  5    24 ms    13 ms     9 ms  te-9-1-ur06.sanjose.ca.sfba.comcast.net
[68.87.1
92.54]
  6    11 ms    11 ms     *     te-0-3-0-4-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net
[68.
87.226.229]
  7     *       23 ms    13 ms
pos-0-2-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net
 [68.86.90.141]
  8    15 ms    26 ms    17 ms
pos-0-9-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.181]
  9    18 ms    21 ms    14 ms  xe-8-3-0.edge1.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.71.118.13]

 10    33 ms    13 ms    16 ms  vlan89.csw3.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.68.18.190]
 11    21 ms    18 ms    36 ms  ae-84-84.ebr4.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.69.134.249]

 12   105 ms     *        *     ae-2.ebr4.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.135.186]
 13   121 ms   108 ms   111 ms  ae-94-94.csw4.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.134.126]

 14   126 ms   109 ms   109 ms  ae-93-93.ebr3.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.134.109]

 15    93 ms    93 ms   102 ms  ae-3-3.ebr2.washington1.level3.net
[4.69.132.89]

 16   190 ms   184 ms   192 ms  ae-42-42.ebr2.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.69.137.53
]
 17   184 ms   210 ms   185 ms  ae-62-62.csw1.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.69.140.18
]
 18   182 ms   181 ms     *     ae-1-69.edge3.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.68.23.11]

 19   184 ms   195 ms   181 ms  62.67.33.114
 20   185 ms   184 ms   184 ms  209.85.254.108
 21   198 ms   185 ms   184 ms  209.85.240.134
 22   182 ms   192 ms   184 ms  209.85.254.134
 23   181 ms   183 ms   181 ms  fx-in-f103.google.com [74.125.39.103]

Trace complete.

62.67.33.114:

inetnum: 62.67.32.0 - 62.67.33.255
netname: FRANKFURT-SERIAL1
descr: DE transfer network1
country: DE
admin-c: LTHM
tech-c: LTEE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: LEVEL3-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: LEVEL3 Hostmaster
address: Level (3) Communications
address: 100 Leman Street
address: London
address: E1 8EU

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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