Yes me!! No other bugger seems to have noticed until now though. Getting similar traces to you; then it just sorts itself out after 5-10 minutes. I did think it was an issue with my LINX peering. Clearly not (from your trace). Queue the irritated: why don't you just email noc@google emails. Love & kisses, Ben Absolute Radio (AS34763) -----Original Message----- From: Steve Williams [mailto:williams@csr.utexas.edu] Sent: 14 May 2009 16:49 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: delays to google am seeing significant delays in getting to google. anyone else seeing this? $ traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.53.147 traceroute to www.l.google.com (74.125.53.147), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 cisco-190 (129.116.190.250) 0.430 ms 0.350 ms 0.353 ms 2 ser10-v758.gw.utexas.edu (128.83.10.29) 1.138 ms 1.099 ms 1.057 ms 3 ser2-gi1-9.gw.utexas.edu (128.83.10.2) 10.475 ms 1.174 ms 1.584 ms 4 aust-utnoc-core-ge-6-0-0-0.tx-bb.net (192.12.10.1) 1.215 ms 1.209 ms 1.134 ms 5 te2-1--570.tr01-lsanca01.transitrail.net (137.164.131.221) 40.649 ms 40.699 ms 40.678 ms 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 * * * 11 72.14.232.10 (72.14.232.10) 261.262 ms * * 12 * * pw-in-f147.google.com (74.125.53.147) 251.867 ms -- ''' (O O) ,-------------- oOO-(_)-OOo -------------, | Stephen Williams | | Manager of Computer Services | | Center for Space Research | | University of Texas at Austin | | 3925 W. Braker Ln., Suite 200 | | Austin, TX 78759-5321 | | 512.471.7235 512.471.3570 (fax) | | williams@csr.utexas.edu | |____________________ Oooo ______________| oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) ________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER This e-mail message, including any attachments, is intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain confidential information. If it is not intended for you, please inform the sender and delete the e-mail and any attachments immediately. Any review, retransmission, disclosure, copying or modification of it is strictly forbidden. Please be advised that the views and opinions expressed in this e-mail may not reflect the views and opinions of TIML Radio Limited or any of its parent and subsidiary companies. Whilst we take reasonable precautions to ensure that our emails are free from viruses, we cannot be responsible for any viruses transmitted with this e-mail and recommend that you subject any incoming e-mail to your own virus checking procedures. Use of this or any other e-mail facility signifies consent to any interception we might lawfully carry out to prevent abuse of these facilities. ________________________________________________ TIML Radio Limited (trading as Absolute Radio) Registered office: One Golden Square, London. W1F 9DJ Registered in England No 02674136 VAT No 927 2572 11