I seem to be getting one hell of a lot of hops between here and Toronto. It looks like they have a serious case of spaghetti routing in cerf.net. Does anyone know what's up?

~ > traceroute www.mhsc.com traceroute to falcon.lvrmr.mhsc.com (199.108.175.225), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 209.82.43.1 (209.82.43.1) 2.344 ms 2.176 ms 2.160 ms 2 172.17.18.177 (172.17.18.177) 4.429 ms 4.436 ms 4.284 ms 3 207.245.35.65 (207.245.35.65) 4.334 ms 4.411 ms 4.647 ms 4 205.150.154.141 (205.150.154.141) 4.563 ms 13.403 ms 13.971 ms 5 f000-10.bb2.tor2.f000-10.bb1.tor2.uunet.ca (205.150.242.109) 37.502 ms 190.594 ms 17.974 ms 6 224.Atm4-0-0.GW3.NYC4.Alter.Net (137.39.75.21) 17.302 ms 18.527 ms 17.855 ms 7 140.ATM2-0.XR1.NYC4.ALTER.NET (146.188.179.146) 17.266 ms 17.609 ms 22.412 ms 8 189.ATM3-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.86) 18.167 ms 19.935 ms 27.089 ms 9 195.ATM11-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.153) 20.739 ms 29.381 ms 34.891 ms 10 atm12-0.nyc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.32.49) 24.081 ms 21.021 ms 19.815 ms 11 pos2-0-155M.nyc-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.162) 19.283 ms 22.170 ms 21.047 ms 12 pos12-0-0-155M.nyc-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.165) 20.439 ms 20.227 ms 20.116 ms 13 atm3-0-155M.phl-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.46.9) 549.826 ms 559.131 ms 507.581 ms 14 pos4-0-0-155M.nyc-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.46.169) 455.182 ms 454.303 ms 471.459 ms 15 atm9-0-3-155M.san-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.45) 1267.546 ms 1257.430 ms 1138.974 ms 16 pos0-0-155.san-bb6.cerf.net (134.24.29.130) 418.926 ms 410.702 ms 434.318 ms 17 atm6-0-622M.lax-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.142) 425.456 ms 362.121 ms 364.302 ms 18 pos3-0-0-155M.lax-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.133) 1190.588 ms 1130.962 ms 1180.913 ms 19 atm3-0-155M.sfo-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.29.42) 340.919 ms 297.623 ms 285.305 ms 20 fe9-0-0.sfo-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.118) 282.859 ms 287.957 ms 300.554 ms 21 atm3-0-155M.sjc-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.22) 337.961 ms 396.046 ms 412.056 ms 22 199.108.168.1 (199.108.168.1) 1133.342 ms 1299.682 ms 1149.291 ms 23 199.108.168.51 (199.108.168.51) 380.942 ms 307.255 ms 301.474 ms 24 falcon.lvrmr.mhsc.com (199.108.175.225) 309.010 ms 298.941 ms 309.333 ms

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