ALTER.NET Issues in Seattle

[giesen at snickers.org (Gary T. Giesen)]

Another note:

Seeing  > 50% packet loss with 605 byte packets or larger. Anything
604 or under and there's zero packet loss. With or without df-bit set.

GG

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Gary T. Giesen<giesen at snickers.org> wrote:
> Seeing issues with Alter.net in Seattle to a Qwest DSL customer in
> Portland (and looks like a possible routing loop as well) from
> Calgary:
>
> traceroute 63.227.218.201
>
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Tracing the route to 63.227.218.201
>
> ?1 gw-V4051.bb101-2420-1.cgy.akn.ca (209.90.250.33) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
> ?2 maxtnt01-sdf-463.fast.net (204.92.61.209) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
> ?3 125.at-6-0-0.XT2.CAL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.138.122) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
> ?4 POS5-0.BR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.85) 224 msec 212 msec 200 msec
> ?5 POS5-0.BR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.85) 188 msec 184 msec 192 msec
> ?6 204.255.169.30 (204.255.169.30) 192 msec 192 msec 196 msec
> ?7 sea-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.26.85) 200 msec 204 msec 204 msec
> ?8 por-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.1.237) 208 msec 212 msec 224 msec
> ?9 ptld-agw1.inet.qwest.net (205.171.130.26) 240 msec 232 msec 236 msec
> ?10 ptld-dsl-gw34-10.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.86.10) 236 msec 244 msec 236 msec
> ?11 x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) 296 msec * ?252 msec
>
> Seeing pings jump from 0 ms to 200+ ms at hop 4 (which also appears as
> hop 5), and is definitely *not* explained by geographical distance.
>
>
>
> Traceroute from my Toronto POP are fine:
>
> traceroute 63.227.218.201
> traceroute to 63.227.218.201 (63.227.218.201), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
> ?1 ?ge0-1.cyan.akn.ca (66.135.102.132) ?1.506 ms ?1.498 ms ?1.482 ms
> ?2 ?ge-0-0-3.V4022.smalt.akn.ca (66.135.108.85) ?2.198 ms ?2.193 ms ?2.180 ms
> ?3 ?te3-5.1244.ccr02.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.112.93.49) ?1.640 ms
> ?1.634 ms ?1.624 ms
> ?4 ?te3-2.ccr01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.213) ?16.861 ms
> 16.884 ms te9-8.ccr01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.27.241) ?16.890
> ms
> ?5 ?154.54.29.18 (154.54.29.18) ?17.594 ms ?17.594 ms ?17.582 ms
> ?6 ?qwest.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.186) ?17.001 ms ?16.384
> ms qwest.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.106) ?16.435 ms
> ?7 ?cer-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.113) ?16.480 ms ?16.795 ms
> ?16.802 ms
> ?8 ?por-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.1.237) ?72.435 ms ?72.472 ms ?72.448 ms
> ?9 ?ptld-agw1.inet.qwest.net (205.171.130.26) ?72.502 ms ?72.473 ms ?72.473 ms
> 10 ?ptld-dsl-gw34-10.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.86.10) ?72.985 ms ?72.958
> ms ?72.626 ms
> 11 ?x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) ?134.030 ms * *
>
>
> Anyone else seeing the same thing?
>
> GG
>