Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Daniel Seagraves dseagrav at humancapitaldev.com
Tue Dec 14 13:26:57 UTC 2010


On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:

> 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.

On the 30-day graph, there's a flat spot in the data that corresponds with the Comcast outage on the 28th, but that's not a sure thing.






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