so, i’m visiting my in-laws in manchester, NH. using their verizon DSL, and i haven’t been able to access google for days. here’s a traceroute:

3 so-2-3-0-0.core-rtr1.man.verizon-gni.net (130.81.12.129) 32.784 ms 25.822 ms 25.496 ms
4 130.81.20.116 (130.81.20.116) 28.147 ms 28.763 ms 27.782 ms
5 0.so-2-2-0.xl1.bos4.alter.net (152.63.16.9) 29.872 ms 28.591 ms 30.240 ms
6 0.so-2-2-0.xl3.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.0.218) 34.828 ms 34.378 ms 35.914 ms
7 0.ge-5-0-0.br2.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.3.126) 33.736 ms 33.693 ms 35.232 ms
8 * * *
9 216.6.97.13 (216.6.97.13) 35.982 ms 35.385 ms 35.490 ms
10 if-1-0-0.core3.aeq-ashburn.teleglobe.net (216.6.51.5) 41.242 ms 41.290 ms 41.224 ms
11 ix-2-0.core3.aeq-ashburn.teleglobe.net (209.58.27.130) 40.646 ms 41.295 ms 41.779 ms
12 209.85.130.18 (209.85.130.18) 42.552 ms 42.937 ms 42.501 ms
13 64.233.175.217 (64.233.175.217) 42.152 ms 64.233.175.219 (64.233.175.219) 42.096 ms 45.020 ms
14 216.239.48.190 (216.239.48.190) 44.219 ms 44.511 ms 216.239.49.214 (216.239.49.214) 46.330 ms
15 od-in-f103.google.com (64.233.161.103) 42.817 ms 42.407 ms 42.167 ms


whatever is happening in hop #8 is black-holing HTTP requests.

Posted on June 1st, 2007 by mike
Filed under: web