Hi list, [ Apologies for this off-topic message ]
Please refer to the following *interesting* traceroute output from a box in the VSNL network: ---->8---->8---- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute -I msdn.microsoft.com traceroute to msdn.microsoft.akadns.net (65.55.11.235), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 210.211.168.1.bb-static.vsnl.net.in (210.211.168.1) 26.749 ms 27.256 ms 27.091 ms 2 delhi-203.200.108-213.vsnl.net.in (203.200.108.213) 26.836 ms 27.022 ms 26.588 ms 3 59.163.16.138.static.vsnl.net.in (59.163.16.138) 294.918 ms 294.162 ms 295.428 ms 4 219.64.231.5.mpls-vpn-sj.static.vsnl.net.in (219.64.231.5) 299.259 ms 299.098 ms 298.917 ms 5 ge-6-3-0-46.pao-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.46.67) 298.534 ms 299.173 ms 297.798 ms 6 ge-1-2-0-0.tuk-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.33.222) 312.887 ms 313.286 ms 313.417 ms 7 ge-3-0-0-0.co1-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.41) 316.248 ms 317.286 ms 316.995 ms 8 ge-0-0-0-0.co1-64c-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.189) 321.016 ms 320.803 ms 320.532 ms 9 10.22.8.62 (10.22.8.62) 321.021 ms 319.924 ms 319.659 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * ----8<----8<---- And following is the output of traceroute from a box in Airtel Broadband network. ----8<----8<---- abbe [~] chateau% sudo traceroute -I msdn.microsoft.com Password: traceroute to msdn.microsoft.akadns.net (65.55.11.235), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets 1 * * * 2 ABTS-NCR-Static-246.220.160.122.airtelbroadband.in (122.160.220.246) 33.458 ms 29.046 ms 30.290 ms 3 rasBTNLDel-static-174.215.56.202.mantraonline.com (202.56.215.174) 33.563 ms 31.811 ms 30.377 ms 4 125.19.22.145 (125.19.22.145) 29.517 ms 28.377 ms 30.774 ms 5 125.21.167.25 (125.21.167.25) 75.891 ms 75.737 ms 75.602 ms 6 sl-gw39-nyc-10-1.sprintlink.net (160.81.228.73) 294.580 ms 301.473 ms 306.050 ms 7 sl-bb21-nyc-3-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.57) 297.558 ms 297.729 ms 299.510 ms 8 sl-bb22-nyc-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.102) 304.510 ms 314.244 ms 305.923 ms 9 sl-bb21-chi-3-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.102) 332.567 ms 331.458 ms 331.284 ms 10 sl-bb25-chi-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.90) 328.455 ms 328.153 ms 360.344 ms 11 sl-bb20-sea-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.85) 370.266 ms 367.872 ms 369.547 ms 12 sl-gw20-sea-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.6.8) 375.711 ms 406.419 ms 378.141 ms 13 sl-microsoft-23-0.sprintlink.net (144.224.113.146) 384.781 ms 383.371 ms 387.322 ms 14 207.46.41.125 (207.46.41.125) 401.802 ms 402.980 ms 415.847 ms 15 ge-3-0-0-0.co1-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.41) 388.315 ms 549.512 ms * 16 ge-0-0-0-0.co1-64c-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.189) 390.412 ms 416.519 ms 386.261 ms 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * ---->8---->8---- VSNL, which has got peerings with MSN, whereas Airtel Broadband connects via Sprint. Good peerings != Good network HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
