Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. Output over Cogent: sarglund-cogent>traceroute www.duke-energy.com Translating "www.duke-energy.com"...domain server (66.28.0.45) [OK] Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.duke-energy.com (192.234.122.137) 1 g0-2.na01.b000629-0.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.112.0.193) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 g1-0.core01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.6.73) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 t4-1.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.98) [AS 174] 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec 4 v3488.mpd01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.26) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0msec 5 g6-0-0-3492.core01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.241) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 6 sprint.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.46) [AS 174] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 7 sl-bb20-chi-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.218) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 8 sl-bb21-chi-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.2) [AS 174] 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec 9 sl-bb25-chi-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.90) [AS 174] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * sarglund-cogent> vs. Output over Verizon: sarglund-gw>traceroute www.duke-energy.com Translating "www.duke-energy.com"...domain server (198.6.1.2) [OK] Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.duke-energy.com (192.234.122.137) 1 500.Serial4-10.GW1.CHI2.ALTER.NET (157.130.165.213) [AS 701] 8 msec 0 msec 4msec 2 0.so-0-0-0.XT1.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.64.130) [AS 701] 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 0.so-7-0-0.XL1.CHI13.ALTER.NET (152.63.64.206) [AS 701] 4 msec 16 msec 4 msec 4 0.so-6-0-0.BR2.CHI13.ALTER.NET (152.63.73.25) [AS 701] 4 msec 0 msec 44 msec 5 sl-st21-chi-3-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.141) [AS 701] 32 msec 12 msec 12 msec 6 sl-crs2-chi-0-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.154) [AS 701] 8 msec 16 msec 20 msec 7 sl-bb25-chi-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.113) [AS 701] 12 msec 28 msec 12 msec 8 sl-bb26-rly-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.88) [AS 701] 116 msec 216 msec * 9 sl-bb21-dc-12-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.212) [AS 701] 24 msec 32 msec 36 msec 10 sl-gw21-dc-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.15.9) [AS 701] 32 msec 28 msec 24 msec 11 sl-dukenergy-57200-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.23.170) [AS 701] 40 msec 36 msec 40 msec sarglund-gw> enjoy, -carl