Oh, ok. That explains why it stops in Lax within Cogent. It appears to be a submarine cable cut from their page:

Customers Transiting our network from Europe to our Asian markets may be experiencing Latency and Packet Loss. Multiple vessels are currently being gathered and/or being dispatched to carry out the repair operations from the submarine faults currently being reported. There is NO ETR at this time.

On Thursday, 30/05/2024 at 07:27 Mehmet wrote:

I assume this is due to cogent having massive outage in California and traffic shifting away from Cogent congesting 1299. It’s my quick observation 

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 07:24 Scott Q. <qmail@top-consulting.net> wrote:

Anyone else noticed some major latency / packet loss going to Asia starting roughly 10 hours ago ?

For example, tracerouting to 36.68.218.127 provides very mixed results.

Traceroute from 192.168.121.126 to 36.68.218.127 (36.68.218.127):

1 192.168.121.1 1.337ms 0.375ms 0.34ms  

2 lo0-0.bng4.wh-man.zen.net.uk (51.148.77.131) 5.744ms 4.817ms 4.139ms  

3 lag-8.p2.wh-man.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.118) 11.71ms 11.515ms 11.817ms  

4 lag-3.p1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.136) 11.844ms 11.645ms 11.63ms  

5 ldn-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.120.74) 12.61ms 12.755ms 12.758ms  

6 prs-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.25) 19.242ms 18.703ms *  

7 mei-b5-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.124.55) 28.8ms 28.702ms 28.593ms  

8 * prs-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.124.54) 563.155ms *  

9 * ldn-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.24) 637.818ms *  

10 nyk-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.113.20) 364.331ms * *  

11 * * *  

12 port-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.115.25) 1130.258ms 1155.178ms 1149.024ms  

13 * tky-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.127.11) 1109.197ms *  

14 * tky-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.126.134) 1498.216ms *  

15 * * *  

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17 * * *  

18 180.240.191.166 901.364ms * *  

19 * 180.240.204.9 1164.257ms *  

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255 * * *