On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
Hm, I'm still waiting to witness a traceroute from Europe to Asia or the Pacific that doesn't go over the US for the first time.
Enjoy:
Thank you. :-)
10 london-bar2.ja.net (146.97.35.6) 12.378 ms 11.973 ms 12.099 ms 11 ten155-gw.ja.net (193.63.94.15) 12.781 ms 12.940 ms 12.753 ms 12 janet.uk.ten-155.net (212.1.192.149) 14.474 ms 18.835 ms 16.487 ms 13 212.1.192.186 (212.1.192.186) 303.626 ms 301.981 ms 303.517 ms 14 nacsis-2-FE2-0-0.sinet.ad.jp (150.99.99.17) 317.214 ms 313.987 ms 313.982 ms
Unfortunately, in this instance avoiding the US doesn't seem to pay off: 5 so-1-1-0.TR1.AMS2.Alter.Net (146.188.8.86) 5.187 ms so-1-1-0.TR2.AMS2.Alter.Net (146.188.8.90) 309.476 ms 296.644 ms 6 so-2-0-0.IR2.DCA4.Alter.Net (146.188.11.222) 87.299 ms 86.886 ms 86.995 ms [...] 11 POS6-0.BR3.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.38.117) 87.579 ms 86.699 ms 86.749 ms 12 a3-0.uunet.mclnva02.us.bb.verio.net (204.255.169.90) 320.341 ms 289.424 ms 291.342 ms 13 p16-0-0-0.r02.mclnva02.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.254) 291.258 ms 88.383 ms 88.220 ms 14 p4-6-1-0.r00.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.245) 173.876 ms 173.900 ms 403.277 ms [...] 18 p1-1.nii.snjsca03.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.10.22) 595.339 ms 567.663 ms * 19 kyoto-10-GE2-0.sinet.ad.jp (150.99.163.65) 444.986 ms 397.353 ms 336.185 ms (I removed 4 UUNET routers in DC and 3 Verio routers in the Bay Area.) Over 300 ms for less than 10000 km (6000 miles) is not great. Even a good satellite should be able to provide better round trip times... But then the GSM cellular network provides a minimum RTT of 550 ms even for very short distances, so I suppose it could be worse.