From San Jose to Google.com - via Europe

I was kind of wondering why my connectivity slowed to a crawl a little
while ago...

Any idea what is up with this? From Comcast in San Jose:

%tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.39.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

[snip]

  5 24 ms 13 ms 9 ms te-9-1-ur06.sanjose.ca.sfba.comcast.net
[68.87.1
92.54]
  6 11 ms 11 ms * te-0-3-0-4-ar01.oakland.ca.sfba.comcast.net
[68.
87.226.229]
  7 * 23 ms 13 ms
pos-0-2-0-0-cr01.sacramento.ca.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.90.141]
  8 15 ms 26 ms 17 ms
pos-0-9-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.181]
  9 18 ms 21 ms 14 ms xe-8-3-0.edge1.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.71.118.13]

10 33 ms 13 ms 16 ms vlan89.csw3.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.68.18.190]
11 21 ms 18 ms 36 ms ae-84-84.ebr4.sanjose1.level3.net
[4.69.134.249]

12 105 ms * * ae-2.ebr4.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.135.186]
13 121 ms 108 ms 111 ms ae-94-94.csw4.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.134.126]

14 126 ms 109 ms 109 ms ae-93-93.ebr3.newyork1.level3.net
[4.69.134.109]

15 93 ms 93 ms 102 ms ae-3-3.ebr2.washington1.level3.net
[4.69.132.89]

16 190 ms 184 ms 192 ms ae-42-42.ebr2.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.69.137.53
]
17 184 ms 210 ms 185 ms ae-62-62.csw1.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.69.140.18
]
18 182 ms 181 ms * ae-1-69.edge3.frankfurt1.level3.net
[4.68.23.11]

19 184 ms 195 ms 181 ms 62.67.33.114
20 185 ms 184 ms 184 ms 209.85.254.108
21 198 ms 185 ms 184 ms 209.85.240.134
22 182 ms 192 ms 184 ms 209.85.254.134
23 181 ms 183 ms 181 ms fx-in-f103.google.com [74.125.39.103]

Trace complete.

62.67.33.114:

inetnum: 62.67.32.0 - 62.67.33.255
netname: FRANKFURT-SERIAL1
descr: DE transfer network1
country: DE
admin-c: LTHM
tech-c: LTEE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: LEVEL3-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: LEVEL3 Hostmaster
address: Level (3) Communications
address: 100 Leman Street
address: London
address: E1 8EU

- - ferg

Maybe you didn't read the thread "L3: Google from DC via the Netherlands?
"

Probably the same issue (your nameserver is now perhaps quite remote from
you).

No, I guess I missed it, but reviewing the archives I see my question is
already answered.

Thanks for that -- sorry for the noise.

- - ferg

Just as an FYI, I did determine (hint from earlier thread) that I take "the
long route" when I am connected to my corporate SLL VPN (which forces DNS
resolution priority to my corporate DNS servers), but when I disconnect, I
take the short route (and use OpenDNS servers for DNS resolution)...

Go figure.

- - ferg

I have had similar steaming issues with XMRadio. If I am at home and have a
VPN tunnel open to campus my XM steam is poor and choppy on a regular basis.
I need to open the stream before my VPN to get high quality. Different DNS,
the tunnel DNS does not reflect the same path to the stream. Akamai instead
of google.

Robert D. Scott Robert@ufl.edu
Senior Network Engineer 352-273-0113 Phone
CNS - Network Services 352-392-2061 CNS Receptionist
University of Florida 352-392-9440 FAX
Florida Lambda Rail 352-294-3571 FLR NOC
Gainesville, FL 32611 321-663-0421 Cell