As I said, it is a peering issue. Well publicised at the time the decisions 
were made by some ISP's to withdraw from certain peering relationships. I 
cannot remember the ins and outs or the rights & wrongs.

Write to your ISP. 


On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:52:57 +1300
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:25, Andrew Errington wrote:
> > I was all poised with convincing
> > arguments about how crap they were too!!
> You can relieve the tension by having a go at them about the fact that they 
> have screwed up the routing to get from Christchurch to Wellington.
> 
> Here is my route to ftp.citylink.co.nz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/sbin/traceroute ftp.citylink.co.nz
> traceroute to ftp.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  kerberos (192.168.2.62)  0.439 ms  0.209 ms  0.172 ms
>  2  fe7-4-515-1.bertha.paradise.net.nz (202.0.37.1)  9.233 ms  18.571 ms  
> 9.267 ms
>  3  203.96.153.102 (203.96.153.102)  17.631 ms  15.427 ms  15.680 ms
>  4  pe14-bertha.paradise.net.nz (203.96.155.226)  14.545 ms  13.221 ms  
> 12.326 ms
>  5  203.167.223.129 (203.167.223.129)  13.183 ms  13.984 ms  14.444 ms
>  6  ge0-1-0-938.icore1.sym.telstraclear.net (203.98.48.1)  23.332 ms  
> 23.572 ms  24.733 ms
>  7  ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.251)  23.068 ms  
> 25.158 ms  22.748 ms
>  8  ge0-0-0.nzsx-core1.akl.telstraclear.net (203.98.4.3)  25.165 ms  25.170 
> ms  23.854 ms
> 
> See how it goes off to the USA here.
> 
>  9  unknown.net.reach.com (202.84.219.101)  149.536 ms  150.528 ms  151.418 
> ms
> 10  i-0-0.paix-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.143.62)  162.974 ms  164.921 ms  
> 165.948 ms
> 11  i-3-1.paix04.net.reach.com (202.84.251.20)  161.245 ms  162.077 ms  
> 164.846 ms
> 12  paix.zocalo.net (198.32.176.53)  178.886 ms  162.435 ms  163.541 ms
> 13  icdc.woodynet.net (204.61.215.38)  175.783 ms  165.210 ms  164.067 ms
> 14  ftp.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9)  164.804 ms  169.826 ms  165.941 ms
> 
> And here is the correct route from an ihug user.
> 
> traceroute to ftp.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1  ipcop (192.168.0.1)  0.806 ms  0.434 ms  0.351 ms
> 2  203-109-156-252.ihug.net (203.109.156.252) 72.919 ms 70.703 ms  75.689ms
> 3  Vl117-tig-nz-core-1.ihug.net (203.109.156.209) 71.958 ms 71.881 ms 
> 69.573ms
> 4  203-109-156-138.ihug.net (203.109.156.138) 71.495 ms 68.326 ms  72.203 
> ms
> 5  anycast.ape.net.nz (192.203.154.5)  74.371 ms 68.270 ms 70.105 ms
> 6  ftp.citylink.co.nz (202.7.6.9)  73.588 ms  71.217 ms 70.688 ms
> 
> What about it Telstra?
> 
> I'm concerned because I want the discount on NZ traffic which currently is 
> denied me.
> -- 
> CS

-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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