Well, for what it's worth, I was doing some inverse traceroutes yesterday, and it does appear that Indian ISPs take quite a tortuous route from point to point. A traceroute from one Indian ISP (Net4India, the only one I could even reach, which is already a bit worrisome) went from India to Singapore to Tokyo to San Jose to New York to Paris, with a cumulative delay of 418 ms. It actually nearly went around the world:
1 gw-mum (202.71.136.62) 1.439 ms 0.658 ms 0.820 ms 2 61.95.151.1 (61.95.151.1) 4.370 ms 2.937 ms 3.521 ms 3 61.95.150.34 (61.95.150.34) 3.681 ms 7.069 ms 7.438 ms 4 61.95.150.21 (61.95.150.21) 4.079 ms 6.854 ms 5.343 ms 5 203.101.100.41 (203.101.100.41) 27.754 ms 26.166 ms 27.516 ms 6 61.95.180.18 (61.95.180.18) 25.200 ms 24.482 ms 26.841 ms 7 203.208.146.49 (203.208.146.49) 58.020 ms 58.099 ms 60.815 ms 8 ge-3-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.157) 60.545 ms ge-2-0-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.165) 58.701 ms ge-3-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.157) 58.281 ms 9 p1-0.sngtp-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.129) 56.361 ms 92.429 ms p4-0.sngtp-cr3.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.125) 60.439 ms 10 so-0-1-2.toknf-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.173.94) 151.952 ms 203.208.172.230 (203.208.172.230) 146.167 ms 219.727 ms 11 p1-0-0.toknf-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.173.21) 155.577 ms 147.855 ms 157.366 ms 12 P3-0.TKYBB1.Tokyo.opentransit.net (193.251.254.29) 157.024 ms 148.086 ms 153.658 ms 13 P1-2.SJOCR1.San-jose.opentransit.net (193.251.242.206) 246.231 ms 247.064 ms 257.645 ms 14 P14-0.NYKCR2.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.242.1) 330.534 ms 348.584 ms 344.785 ms 15 P1-0.AUVCR2.Aubervilliers.opentransit.net (193.251.241.137) 423.633 ms 422.628 ms 414.842 ms 16 pos9-0.nraub303.Aubervilliers.francetelecom.net (193.251.126.9) 415.860 ms 428.651 ms 417.621 ms 17 pos0-0-0-0.ncidf303.Aubervilliers.francetelecom.net (193.252.103.169) 425.146 ms 431.029 ms 423.044 ms 18 80.10.215.202 (80.10.215.202) 424.796 ms 417.172 ms 418.653 ms A trace from Japan went through Dallas, Atlanta, and Oakhill, but I guess that isn't too bad, although it's hardly a straight line. A trace from Russia was amazingly direct. Spain reached my machine in just 39 ms, via London. But the most impressive was CERN in Switzerland, which reached my machine in eight hops and 8 ms. This doesn't necessarily mean that Indian ISPs route domestic traffic outside the country, but I noticed that happening for other countries that should have better infrastructures, so certainly it would not surprise me. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
