-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This may be far afield insofar as topic fodder, but I am curious if anyone knows exactly what these two hops [9] [10] below, actually are? [snip] [...] 5 165 ms 161 ms 183 ms 10g-9-1-ur04.sanjose.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.87. 192.49] 6 155 ms 156 ms 149 ms 10g-7-1-ur03.sanjose.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.87. 192.41] 7 * * 163 ms 10g-9-1-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.87. 192.37] 8 161 ms 157 ms * 68.87.226.130 9 169 ms 185 ms 171 ms 12.116.90.17 10 197 ms 198 ms 196 ms 12.122.114.66 11 157 ms 169 ms 175 ms ggr3-ge110.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.169] 12 145 ms 149 ms 148 ms 192.205.33.82 13 182 ms 196 ms 209 ms ae-2-54.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.97] 14 344 ms 332 ms 339 ms as-0-0.mp2.Stockholm1.Level3.net [4.68.128.70] 15 330 ms 343 ms 390 ms ge-1-1.car2.Stockholm1.Level3.net [4.68.96.226] [...] [snip] I have asked SBC/AT&T folks and received no reply at all... Cheers, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFgPw+q1pz9mNUZTMRAiFEAJ9y481aCutAqVuQrLcMPa3iC6SoXwCgigNC ZE+BBNraVc4VMlUKfyzYNJg= =34zg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/