I asked about this and was told that what you did is the only way to check.
----- Original message ----- > Hi, > > I was wondering a bit about the Google cache, so i went to youtube, and > clicked a movie. > > While the page was loading, i saw the name Bhartel as one of the servers > that it was loading data from, so i opened the source of the page, and > looked for that word, as Bhartel is the upstream provider of my ISP. I > found this server > > o-o.preferred.bharti-bom1.v5.lscache3.c.youtube.com > > A traceroute to that server shows it is probably somewhere in India at > about 400ms from where I am. > > Does that mean my ISP is not using the google cache at UTL, or was I > just not lucky today? Or was my test just flawed? If so, how can i test > if i get my youtube videos from the UTL gcache? And what servernames do > other people (in uganda) see when they load a utube video? > > I clicked a random movie for my test, i happened to be this one > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xQBNngzC8&feature=relmfu > > btw, that cache seems to be doing its job, UTL is pushing 30Mb/s through > the UIXP, quite impressive, that is about 6 times more than before they > started sharing the cache. You can see the stats of the Ugandan > internet here http://stats.uixp.co.ug/ > > Here is the traceroute. > > reinier@mountlab6:~$ traceroute o-o.preferred.bharti- > bom1.v5.lscache3.c.youtube.com > traceroute to o-o.preferred.bharti-bom1.v5.lscache3.c.youtube.com > (182.79.254.156), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets > 1 ipcop.mountbatten.net (192.168.38.1) 3.080 ms * * > 2 41.220.13.21 (41.220.13.21) 5.680 ms 5.881 ms 6.126 ms > 3 41.220.12.129 (41.220.12.129) 21.764 ms 21.999 ms 22.218 ms > 4 192.168.12.1 (192.168.12.1) 41.478 ms 41.684 ms 41.897 ms > 5 192.168.145.1 (192.168.145.1) 42.247 ms 46.825 ms 47.091 ms > 6 41.220.12.41 (41.220.12.41) 48.178 ms 45.303 ms 45.459 ms > 7 41.220.12.49 (41.220.12.49) 45.691 ms 51.389 ms 37.222 ms > 8 if-ctu-edge-ci.data.co.ug (41.220.12.33) 48.018 ms 48.192 ms > 52.393 ms 9 41.84.196.145 (41.84.196.145) 35.289 ms 41.84.196.137 > (41.84.196.137) 35.528 ms 35.290 ms > 10 41.84.192.129 (41.84.192.129) 77.292 ms 77.479 ms 76.523 ms > 11 dsl-del-static-045.45.246.61.airtelbroadband.in (61.246.45.45) > 218.890 ms 219.089 ms 219.580 ms > 12 AES-Static-133.36.144.59.airtel.in (59.144.36.133) 235.195 ms > 234.854 ms 211.352 ms > 13 AES-Static-190.36.144.59.airtel.in (59.144.36.190) 356.806 ms > 357.538 ms 362.792 ms > 14 203.101.100.21 (203.101.100.21) 362.777 ms 398.357 ms 368.134 ms > 15 203.101.100.26 (203.101.100.26) 367.486 ms 367.569 ms 388.039 ms > 16 * * * > 17 * * * > 18 * * * > 19 * * * > 20 * * * > 21 * * * > 22 * * * > 23 * * * > 24 * * * > 25 * * * > 26 * * * > 27 * * * > 28 * * * > 29 * * * > 30 * * * > > > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > http://twitter.com/batje > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] Mailing list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: > http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them > in any way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
