Short-circuited traceroutes on FIOS

Wed Dec 11 03:52:11 UTC 2019

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 5:36 PM Nimrod Levy <nimrodl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is that unique to the FiOS gateway device? I don't use their router and my traces go right out.
>

I also don't use their device  and:
$ traceroute 205.132.109.90
traceroute to 205.132.109.90 (205.132.109.90), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  _gateway (192.168.100.1)  3.085 ms  2.990 ms  2.795 ms
....
15  * 12.250.138.90 (12.250.138.90)  65.970 ms *^C

-chris
(perhaps this is location specific? I'm in the ashburn-ish-area-ish)

>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:08 PM Joe Maimon <jmaimon at jmaimon.com> wrote:
>>
>> Apparently Verizon FIOS is a red herring, terminating ICMP traceroutes
>> right on their gateways.
>>
>> More internet breakage. Thanks for the information to all who responded.
>>
>> Random control test.
>>
>> C:\Users\Home>tracert -d 1.4.5.6
>>
>> Tracing route to 1.4.5.6 over a maximum of 30 hops
>>
>>    1    15 ms     5 ms    <1 ms  172.18.24.1
>>    2     3 ms    23 ms    24 ms  192.168.2.33
>>    3     3 ms     6 ms     3 ms  1.4.5.6
>>
>> Trace complete.
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Joe Maimon wrote:
>> > Anyone have an idea why there are some destinations that on
>> > residential verizon fios here in NY area terminate right on first
>> > external hop?
>> >
>> > There seems to be a CDN common denominator here. On other networks
>> > with more typical BGP paths and traceroutes, users are reporting
>> > issues accessing these sites.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\Home>tracert www.usfoods.com
>> >
>> > Tracing route to statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90]
>> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
>> >
>> >   1     3 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.18.24.1
>> >   2     4 ms     3 ms     3 ms  192.168.2.33
>> >   3    17 ms     6 ms     3 ms  statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90]
>> >
>> > Trace complete.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\Home>tracert atworkhp.americanexpress.com
>> >
>> > Tracing route to atworkhp.americanexpress.com.akadns.net [139.71.19.87]
>> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
>> >
>> >   1     2 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.18.24.1
>> >   2     3 ms     4 ms    23 ms  192.168.2.33
>> >   3    21 ms    11 ms     5 ms atworkhomepage2.americanexpress.com
>> > [139.71.19.87]
>> >
>> > Trace complete.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\Home>tracert portal.discover.com
>> >
>> > Tracing route to e14577.x.akamaiedge.net [23.51.172.254]
>> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
>> >
>> >   1     3 ms     1 ms    18 ms  172.18.24.1
>> >   2    21 ms     7 ms     6 ms  192.168.2.33
>> >   3     4 ms     2 ms     2 ms
>> > a23-51-172-254.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.51.172.254]
>> >
>> > Trace complete.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>