Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!BRL.MIL!mike From: mike@BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Serious Routing Problems Message-ID: <9007261125.aa13838@WOLF.BRL.MIL> Date: 26 Jul 90 15:25:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 This is one of the most painful trips from Maryland to Boston I have ever seen! -Mike From: Phil Dykstra For ha ha's check this out: traceroute to expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.30.0.212), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 ext328 (128.63.4.22) 21 ms 21 ms 26 ms 2 MOFFETT-FLD-MB.DDN.MIL (26.20.0.16) 586 ms 632 ms 272 ms 3 Palo_Alto.CA.NSS.NSF.NET (192.52.195.254) 238 ms * 200 ms 4 Salt_Lake_City.UT.NSS.NSF.NET (129.140.79.13) 426 ms 497 ms 261 ms 5 Ann_Arbor.MI.NSS.NSF.NET (129.140.81.15) 275 ms 263 ms 367 ms 6 Princeton.NJ.NSS.NSF.NET (129.140.72.17) 303 ms 257 ms 248 ms 7 zaphod-gateway.jvnc.net (192.12.211.65) 271 ms 294 ms 250 ms 8 hotblack-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.0.67) 271 ms 384 ms 287 ms 9 capital1-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.1.9) 556 ms 472 ms 300 ms 10 cheesesteak2-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.33.250) 459 ms 294 ms 666 ms 11 * * cheesesteak1-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.32.1) 306 ms 12 * beantown2-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.27.250) 335 ms 311 ms 13 near-gateway.jvnc.net (130.94.27.10) 335 ms 328 ms 385 ms 14 ihtfp.mit.edu (192.54.222.1) 774 ms * 353 ms 15 SEWAGE.MIT.EDU (18.68.0.8) 576 ms * 303 ms 16 * MOSS.LCS.MIT.EDU (18.10.0.11) 344 ms 365 ms The MILNET throws it as far away as it possibly can, NSFNET spends four (nice orderly) hops getting it to Princeton, and then JVNC spends 7(!) hops getting it to Boston. - Phil