Apparently Verizon FIOS is a red herring, terminating ICMP traceroutes right on their gateways. More internet breakage. Thanks for the information to all who responded. Random control test. C:\Users\Home>tracert -d 1.4.5.6 Tracing route to 1.4.5.6 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 15 ms 5 ms <1 ms 172.18.24.1 2 3 ms 23 ms 24 ms 192.168.2.33 3 3 ms 6 ms 3 ms 1.4.5.6 Trace complete. Joe Joe Maimon wrote:
Anyone have an idea why there are some destinations that on residential verizon fios here in NY area terminate right on first external hop?
There seems to be a CDN common denominator here. On other networks with more typical BGP paths and traceroutes, users are reporting issues accessing these sites.
C:\Users\Home>tracert www.usfoods.com
Tracing route to statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.18.24.1 2 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.2.33 3 17 ms 6 ms 3 ms statics.usfoods.com [205.132.109.90]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\Home>tracert atworkhp.americanexpress.com
Tracing route to atworkhp.americanexpress.com.akadns.net [139.71.19.87] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.18.24.1 2 3 ms 4 ms 23 ms 192.168.2.33 3 21 ms 11 ms 5 ms atworkhomepage2.americanexpress.com [139.71.19.87]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\Home>tracert portal.discover.com
Tracing route to e14577.x.akamaiedge.net [23.51.172.254] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 1 ms 18 ms 172.18.24.1 2 21 ms 7 ms 6 ms 192.168.2.33 3 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms a23-51-172-254.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [23.51.172.254]
Trace complete.