Seeing the same here from one of our client sites in AZ. Why bouncing thru so many routers.. 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.54.66.1 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.84.128.1 3 11 ms 7 ms 7 ms ip68-2-4-77.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.4.77] 4 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 68.2.12.110 5 12 ms 8 ms 26 ms 68.2.13.22 6 9 ms 11 ms 13 ms 68.2.13.26 7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 68.2.13.30 8 14 ms 10 ms 11 ms chnddsrj01-ae2.rd.ph.cox.net [68.2.14.9] 9 9 ms 12 ms 11 ms chndbbrj02-ge120.rd.ph.cox.net [68.1.0.170] 10 35 ms 38 ms 35 ms dllsbbrj01-so000.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.177] 11 33 ms 36 ms 44 ms dllsbbrj02-ae0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.143] 12 * * 55 ms btnrbbrj01-so-000000.rd.br.cox.net [68.1.1.195] 13 47 ms 47 ms 54 ms btnrbbrc02-so030.rd.br.cox.net [68.1.1.205] 14 75 ms 85 ms 78 ms dukebbrj01-as00.tc.at.cox.net [68.1.0.8] 15 73 ms 77 ms 74 ms dukebbrj01-ge030.tc.at.cox.net [68.1.0.2] 16 88 ms 74 ms 78 ms maribbpj01-so100.rd.dc.cox.net [68.1.0.29] 17 75 ms 75 ms 75 ms atl.ix.hostway.com [198.32.132.29] 18 91 ms 92 ms 92 ms g11-0.co1.tpax.hostway.net [64.156.25.105] 19 90 ms 89 ms 94 ms sv1.rudebox.com [8.6.221.56] Marshall Eubanks wrote:

I get similar numbers from my house in Clifton, Virginia (through Cox Head End 8)

- to the server you used --- 67.18.76.10 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 228.745/246.773/258.999/13.015 ms

- to AOL in Ashburn (25 miles) --- 172.128.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 143.525/186.410/219.875/31.873 ms

- to Multicasttech in Tysons (20 miles) --- 63.105.122.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 112.704/213.443/335.319/92.103 ms

I know that typical ping to the latter two boxes are order 30 msec or less normally, as I use them all the time for debugging.

Both pinging to some boxes I know of in Cox, and doing a traceroute indicates that things go bad quickly.

[TME-Laptop-2:~/dump] tme% traceroute 63.105.122.1 traceroute to 63.105.122.1 (63.105.122.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 8.530 ms 12.148 ms 8.774 ms 2 192.168.15.1 (192.168.15.1) 14.132 ms 47.469 ms 36.718 ms 3 ip70-179-104-1.dc.dc.cox.net (70.179.104.1) 295.610 ms 252.071 ms 322.577 ms 4 ip68-100-1-177.dc.dc.cox.net (68.100.1.177) 272.860 ms 267.143 ms 269.626 ms 5 ip68-100-0-65.dc.dc.cox.net (68.100.0.65) 368.170 ms 267.966 ms 306.120 ms 6 mrfddsrj01gex070003.rd.dc.cox.net (68.100.0.141) 125.968 ms 110.826 ms 116.504 ms 7 mrfdbbrj01-ge020.rd.dc.cox.net (68.1.1.4) 127.576 ms 156.926 ms 173.118 ms 8 68.1.0.251 (68.1.0.251) 200.335 ms 271.170 ms 266.525 ms 9 68.105.31.74 (68.105.31.74) 204.000 ms 138.558 ms 68.105.31.86 (68.105.31.86) 148.519 ms 10 v3495.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.45) 155.448 ms 161.556 ms 159.102 ms 11 t9-3.mpd01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.142) 131.390 ms 203.528 ms 144.263 ms 12 g11-0-0.core01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.53) 160.153 ms 156.100 ms 160.320 ms 13 v3587.na21.b002176-1.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.32.14) 116.804 ms 120.872 ms 135.297 ms

Regards Marshall

On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote:

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For about the last two weeks, you've had something broken in your internal routing (here's a traceroute from my house in Reston to a server in TX, just as a sample):

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\jamie>tracert 67.18.76.10

Tracing route to a.4c.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.76.10] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254 2 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms ip68-100-160-1.dc.dc.cox.net [68.100.160.1] 3 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms 68.100.1.113 4 36 ms 38 ms 37 ms ip68-100-0-65.dc.dc.cox.net [68.100.0.65] 5 60 ms 62 ms 57 ms mrfddsrj02gex070003.rd.dc.cox.net [68.100.0.149]

6 68 ms 69 ms 68 ms mrfdbbrj02-ge020.rd.dc.cox.net [68.1.1.6] 7 70 ms 67 ms 60 ms nrfkbbrj02-so000000.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.1.235] 8 54 ms 56 ms 87 ms nrfkbbrj01-ge030.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.0.22] 9 77 ms 83 ms 70 ms dukebbrj01-so000100.rd.at.cox.net [68.1.0.20] 10 127 ms 92 ms 75 ms dukebbrj02-ge030.tc.at.cox.net [68.1.0.3] 11 116 ms 134 ms 117 ms nrfkbbrj01-as0.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.0.9] 12 98 ms 96 ms 101 ms btnrbbrj01-ge030.rd.br.cox.net [68.1.1.204] 13 114 ms 111 ms 110 ms dalsbbrj01-so-010000.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.1.194]

14 106 ms 109 ms 114 ms et2-25.ibr05.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.126.22 5] 15 98 ms 101 ms 99 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30]

16 105 ms 107 ms 107 ms vl22.dsr02.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.76]

17 122 ms 116 ms 118 ms vl1.car04.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.14] 18 123 ms 124 ms 129 ms a.4c.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.76.10]

Trace complete.