I swapped the IP addresses for Best and TLG yesterday in preparation for disconnecting Best's DS3/FDDI connection to MAE-West in favor of TLG's 100Mbps FDDI link. Some TLG San Jose to world traffic may travel over the link until the DS3 is converted to a point to point link. It's not really a lot of traffic. The Alternet hops are just the transit hops to other networks. I am sending out an email to all peers with the updates today, just was too busy to do it sooner :-/ Karl

Enjoy:

% traceroute www.unitedmedia.com traceroute to unitedmedia.com (204.240.178.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 140.174.86.10 (140.174.86.10) 137.582 ms 125.193 ms 126.528 ms 2 gw-tlg (140.174.86.2) 130.345 ms 126.407 ms 158.074 ms 3 tlg-cust-link.tlg.net (140.174.199.2) 134.497 ms 126.107 ms 127.23 ms 4 ln3_gw1-sj-tlg_mv.tlg.net (140.174.101.5) 204.124 ms 255.635 ms 194.128 ms 5 mae-west.tlg.net (198.32.136.22) 183.47 ms 223.452 ms 206.021 ms 6 905.Hssi3-0.GW1.SCL1.ALTER.NET (137.39.133.89) 204.209 ms 266.514 ms 278.43 ms 7 Fddi6-0.SR1.SCL1.Alter.Net (137.39.19.36) 222.749 ms 330.877 ms 490.011 ms 8 Hssi2-0.BR1.NUQ1.Alter.Net (137.39.103.6) 380.718 ms 234.135 ms 436.153 ms 9 mae-west.psi.com (198.32.136.23) 473.437 ms 287.215 ms 305.98 ms 10 ne.sc.psi.net (38.1.3.1) 500.152 ms 367.262 ms 430.873 ms 11 rc8.northeast.us.psi.net (38.1.21.8) 370.318 ms 509.708 ms 386.508 ms 12 38.4.218.4 (38.4.218.4) 461.314 ms 443.618 ms rc8.northeast.us.psi.net (38.1.21.8) 507.873 ms 13 unitedmedia.com (204.240.178.10) 447.827 ms 335.4 ms * %

--vadim

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