Short-circuited traceroutes on FIOS

Fri Dec 13 21:27:32 UTC 2019

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 4:16 PM Javier J <javier at advancedmachines.us> wrote:
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> Is anyone from Verizon on this list? They probably are but not allowed to comment. I would love to know if there is an official comment on why they do this.
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> It annoyed me when they first implemented and I was trying to diagnose an issue with a client.
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> Regarding your edge device:
> Same here, I had ubiquity gear at my GW for a while and before that PFsense.
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> When i saw 1ms responses to a ping one day I was confused.

Well, yes, but you *did* see a 1ms ping response.
I'm sure no ISPs would intentionally configure their networks to
artificially improve their latency measurements on certain automated
tools, so I don't know why that would be a useful outcome...

W

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> - J
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> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:51 PM Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Javier J wrote:
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>> > If you have static addressing (biz account) then possibly different from
>> > what I have.
>> >
>> > In North NJ, 3 different accounts I can verify have ICMP blocked as of
>> > sometime earlier this year or late last year so have to use udp to get a
>> > real traceroute.
>> >
>> > Could not be deployed in all areas the same way.
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>>   I noticed this about the same time I installed Ubiquiti gear at home,
>>   December 2018.
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>>   Until this thread, I thought there was something wrong with my gateway
>>   router config. I could do UDP/TCP traceroutes, but ICMP kept dying.
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>>   Glad to know it isn't my gateway, but frustrated as hell that Verizon
>>   decided that a few customers doing less-than-ideal things was enough to
>>   cut a standard network protocol off at the knees.
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>> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
>> beckman at angryox.com                                 http://www.angryox.com/
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idea in the first place.
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regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
of pants.
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