I should have included reverse traces to begin with. No firewall on VPS. Trace from the VPS to a router close to me. traceroute to 130.81.199.4 (130.81.199.4), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 106.187.33.2 (106.187.33.2) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms 2 124.215.199.121 (124.215.199.121) 6 ms 1 ms 13 ms 3 59.128.4.121 (59.128.4.121) 2 ms otejbb204.kddnet.ad.jp (124.215.194.177) 2 ms 2 ms 4 lajbb001.kddnet.ad.jp (203.181.100.14) 126 ms 100 ms lajbb002.kddnet.ad.jp (203.181.100.22) 162 ms 5 ix-la1.kddnet.ad.jp (59.128.2.70) 108 ms ix-la1.kddnet.ad.jp (59.128.2.178) 102 ms 102 ms 6 lap-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net (63.146.26.69) 99 ms 101 ms 99 ms 7 63.146.26.210 (63.146.26.210) 99 ms 101 ms 99 ms 8 0.ae3.XL3.LAX15.ALTER.NET (152.63.113.186) 102 ms 102 ms 101 ms 9 * * * 10 * * * Tracer from VPS to a router close to my other location, not Verizon. traceroute to 4.59.244.49 (4.59.244.49), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 106.187.33.2 (106.187.33.2) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 124.215.199.121 (124.215.199.121) 9 ms 1 ms 1 ms 3 59.128.4.121 (59.128.4.121) 2 ms otejbb204.kddnet.ad.jp (124.215.194.177) 9 ms 59.128.4.121 (59.128.4.121) 2 ms 4 lajbb001.kddnet.ad.jp (203.181.100.18) 108 ms lajbb002.kddnet.ad.jp (203.181.100.22) 101 ms 101 ms 5 ix-la2.kddnet.ad.jp (59.128.2.102) 116 ms 116 ms ix-la2.kddnet.ad.jp (59.128.2.186) 125 ms 6 xe-11-3-0.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.53.228.13) 111 ms 101 ms 101 ms 7 vlan70.csw2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.126) 110 ms vlan90.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.254) 108 ms vlan60.csw1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.62) 103 ms 8 ae-63-63.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.33) 110 ms 117 ms ae-73-73.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.37) 108 ms 9 ae-4-4.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.82) 178 ms 180 ms 166 ms 10 ae-64-64.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.178) 174 ms 166 ms 166 ms 11 ae-62-62.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.145) 172 ms 165 ms 172 ms 12 ae-8-8.car2.Baltimore1.Level3.net (4.69.134.106) 181 ms 174 ms 174 ms 13 ae-11-11.car1.Baltimore1.Level3.net (4.69.134.109) 181 ms * 174 ms