Spaghetti routes.

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

I seem to be getting one hell of a lot of hops between here and Toronto. It
looks like they have a serious case of spaghetti routing in cerf.net.

Does anyone know what's up?

> ~ > traceroute www.mhsc.com
> traceroute to falcon.lvrmr.mhsc.com (199.108.175.225), 30 hops max, 40
byte packets
> 1  209.82.43.1 (209.82.43.1)  2.344 ms  2.176 ms  2.160 ms
> 2  172.17.18.177 (172.17.18.177)  4.429 ms  4.436 ms  4.284 ms
> 3  207.245.35.65 (207.245.35.65)  4.334 ms  4.411 ms  4.647 ms
> 4  205.150.154.141 (205.150.154.141)  4.563 ms  13.403 ms  13.971 ms
> 5  f000-10.bb2.tor2.f000-10.bb1.tor2.uunet.ca (205.150.242.109)  37.502
ms  190.594 ms  17.974 ms
> 6  224.Atm4-0-0.GW3.NYC4.Alter.Net (137.39.75.21)  17.302 ms  18.527 ms
17.855 ms
> 7  140.ATM2-0.XR1.NYC4.ALTER.NET (146.188.179.146)  17.266 ms  17.609 ms
22.412 ms
> 8  189.ATM3-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.86)  18.167 ms  19.935 ms
27.089 ms
> 9  195.ATM11-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.153)  20.739 ms  29.381
ms  34.891 ms
> 10  atm12-0.nyc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.32.49)  24.081 ms  21.021 ms  19.815 ms
> 11  pos2-0-155M.nyc-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.162)  19.283 ms  22.170 ms
21.047 ms
> 12  pos12-0-0-155M.nyc-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.165)  20.439 ms  20.227 ms
20.116 ms
> 13  atm3-0-155M.phl-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.46.9)  549.826 ms  559.131 ms
507.581 ms
> 14  pos4-0-0-155M.nyc-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.46.169)  455.182 ms  454.303 ms
 471.459 ms
> 15  atm9-0-3-155M.san-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.45)  1267.546 ms  1257.430
ms  1138.974 ms
> 16  pos0-0-155.san-bb6.cerf.net (134.24.29.130)  418.926 ms  410.702 ms
434.318 ms
> 17  atm6-0-622M.lax-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.142)  425.456 ms  362.121 ms
364.302 ms
> 18  pos3-0-0-155M.lax-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.133)  1190.588 ms  1130.962
ms  1180.913 ms
> 19  atm3-0-155M.sfo-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.42)  340.919 ms  297.623 ms
285.305 ms
> 20  fe9-0-0.sfo-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.118)  282.859 ms  287.957 ms
300.554 ms
> 21  atm3-0-155M.sjc-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.22)  337.961 ms  396.046 ms
412.056 ms
> 22  199.108.168.1 (199.108.168.1)  1133.342 ms  1299.682 ms  1149.291 ms
> 23  199.108.168.51 (199.108.168.51)  380.942 ms  307.255 ms  301.474 ms
> 24  falcon.lvrmr.mhsc.com (199.108.175.225)  309.010 ms  298.941 ms
309.333 ms
>
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Roeland M.J. Meyer - 
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