Re: Short-circuited traceroutes on FIOS

[Javier J <javier () advancedmachines us>]

Is anyone from Verizon on this list? They probably are but not allowed to
comment. I would love to know if there is an official comment on why they
do this.

It annoyed me when they first implemented and I was trying to diagnose an
issue with a client.

Regarding your edge device:
Same here, I had ubiquity gear at my GW for a while and before that PFsense.

When i saw 1ms responses to a ping one day I was confused.

- J

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:51 PM Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Javier J wrote:
>
> > If you have static addressing (biz account) then possibly different from
> > what I have.
> >
> > In North NJ, 3 different accounts I can verify have ICMP blocked as of
> > sometime earlier this year or late last year so have to use udp to get a
> > real traceroute.
> >
> > Could not be deployed in all areas the same way.
>
>   I noticed this about the same time I installed Ubiquiti gear at home,
>   December 2018.
>
>   Until this thread, I thought there was something wrong with my gateway
>   router config. I could do UDP/TCP traceroutes, but ICMP kept dying.
>
>   Glad to know it isn't my gateway, but frustrated as hell that Verizon
>   decided that a few customers doing less-than-ideal things was enough to
>   cut a standard network protocol off at the knees.
>
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