Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Tue Dec 14 06:39:25 UTC 2010

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote:

> On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Backdoor Santa wrote:
>>  Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the
>>  tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA
>>  links.
>
> Forgive me for being the skeptic, but I presume there is at least a 
> traceroute  with rDNS mentioning one of the 3 10G interfaces on 
> gin-nto-icore1 from comcast?
>
> It's not like the image lists the customer name on it; disregarding photoshop 
> concerns. At least wikileaks documents look like they came from the 
> government and have lots of details. :)

Agreed.  There's no independently verifiable detail to lend any credence 
to the source(s) of the data.  It just shows some 10G links flat-topping 
due to saturation.  There's not enough here to get particularly excited.

jms