Easily confused...

Sun Apr 17 00:03:29 UTC 2011

Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> On 4/16/11 4:24 PM, "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii at shaka.com> wrote:
>
>> Was trying to determine where this 'honolulu' speedtest was hosted:
>>
>> Tracing route to honolulu.speedtest.net [74.209.160.12]
>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>>  1    22 ms     *        *     123.87.93.224
>>  2    27 ms    29 ms    25 ms
>> hawaiian-telcom-inc.gigabitethernet2-17.core1.lax2.he.net
>> [184.105.134.170]
>>  3    84 ms    90 ms    84 ms  gige-g2-17.core1.lax2.he.net
>> [184.105.134.169]
>>  4    92 ms    98 ms    99 ms  10gigabitethernet7-3.core1.sjc2.he.net
>> [184.105.213.5]
>>  5   112 ms   114 ms   112 ms  10gigabitethernet4-3.core1.sea1.he.net
>> [72.52.92.158]
>>  6   113 ms   113 ms   114 ms  six.netriver.net [206.81.80.160]
>>  7   113 ms   113 ms   113 ms
>> static-74-209-160-12.lynnwood.netriver.net [74.209.160.12]
>> Trace complete.
>>
>> 123.87.93.224?
>>
>> inetnum:        123.64.0.0 - 123.95.255.255
>> netname:        CTTNET
>> country:        CN
>> descr:          China TieTong Telecommunications Corporation
>>
> Well, the DNS name is for a colocation facility in Lynnwood, WA via the
> Seattle Internet Exchange.  I can confirm that the 6th hop actually does
> traverse the SIX, in as much as that IP is correct.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike

Thanks.  What concerned me was the first hop...22ms. is ~ the distance from Maui to Oahu, but why the Chinese IP?  Cruel 
joke?
I"m using Hawaiian Telcom's ADSL service and that first hop has always been their gateway IP address.
Another TCP trace shows the first hop as 123.74.62.128...another CN address.