Re: Short-circuited traceroutes on FIOS

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

wasn't vz pursuing some 'get the a cdn in the central office' for a
time? :) perhaps this is the manifestation of that? :)
or perhaps jared arranged to get links back from each CO to his
network gear in akamai-land?

I love conspiracies!

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:48 PM Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com> wrote:
> Anyone have an idea why there are some destinations that on residential
> verizon fios here in NY area terminate right on first external hop?
>
> There seems to be a CDN common denominator here. On other networks with
> more typical BGP paths and traceroutes, users are reporting issues
> accessing these sites.
>
> C:\Users\Home>tracert www.usfoods.com
>
> Tracing route to statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>    1     3 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.18.24.1
>    2     4 ms     3 ms     3 ms  192.168.2.33
>    3    17 ms     6 ms     3 ms  statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90]
>
> Trace complete.
>
> C:\Users\Home>tracert atworkhp.americanexpress.com
>
> Tracing route to atworkhp.americanexpress.com.akadns.net [139.71.19.87]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>    1     2 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.18.24.1
>    2     3 ms     4 ms    23 ms  192.168.2.33
>    3    21 ms    11 ms     5 ms  atworkhomepage2.americanexpress.com
> [139.71.19.87]
>
> Trace complete.
>
> C:\Users\Home>tracert portal.discover.com
>
> Tracing route to e14577.x.akamaiedge.net [23.51.172.254]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>    1     3 ms     1 ms    18 ms  172.18.24.1
>    2    21 ms     7 ms     6 ms  192.168.2.33
>    3     4 ms     2 ms     2 ms
> a23-51-172-254.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.51.172.254]
>
> Trace complete.