[AusNOG] HE Routing (not a joke)

[andrew khoo]

to confirm, i am tracing from a box in a he.net colo and it's going to
australia:

as7175-sjc>traceroute 216.218.142.50
traceroute to 216.218.142.50 (216.218.142.50), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  v1882.core2.fmt2.he.net (65.19.156.125)  10.773 ms  0.234 ms  0.374 ms
 2  10ge6-16.core4.fmt2.he.net (184.105.213.189)  0.768 ms  0.849 ms  0.319
ms
 3  100ge10-1.core1.sjc1.he.net (184.105.80.193)  0.552 ms  0.594 ms  0.652
ms
 4  10ge2-1.core1.syd1.he.net (184.105.222.86)  146.522 ms  146.509 ms
146.462 ms
 5  tserv1.syd1.he.net (216.218.142.50)  146.303 ms  146.311 ms  146.285 ms




On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Gavin Tweedie <gavin.tweedie at megaport.com>
wrote:

> TPG buys transit from HE /in the US/ so routing via the US is expected,
> twice.
> TPG SYD -> TPG SJC -> HE SJC -> HE SYD -> HE SJC -> TPG SJC -> TPG SYD
>
> Yours looks like it's staying in Sydney on the way there, and coming back
> via the US I agree.. You don't have any indications in your traceroute what
> your source ASN is, but I'm going to guess that your ASN buys transit from
> HE, or someone who buys from HE would that be right?
>
> Hurricane do have a LG @ https://lg.he.net/ which might help you work out
> the reverse path.
>
> Gav
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2018 at 16:07, Christopher Hawker <me at chrishawker.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> I've seen that HE now supposedly run a IPv6 Tunnel Server in Sydney,
>> although I have doubts as to it's location after a few traceroutes. This is
>> from SY4 via NSW-IX:
>>
>>
>> default.master at cr1:~$ traceroute 216.218.142.50
>> traceroute to 216.218.142.50 (216.218.142.50), 30 hops max, 38 byte
>> packets
>>  1  upstream.carrier (192.0.2.254)  0.183 ms  0.123 ms  0.108 ms
>>  2  as6939.nsw.ix.asn.au (218.100.52.249)  150.979 ms  152.368 ms
>> 150.857 ms
>>  3  tserv1.syd1.he.net (216.218.142.50)  150.751 ms  150.839 ms  150.755
>> ms
>>
>> However, this trace is from an AAPT NBN HFC service:
>>
>>
>> C:\Users\default.master>tracert 216.218.142.50
>> Tracing route to tserv1.syd1.he.net [216.218.142.50]
>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>>   1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  172.16.10.254
>>   2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>>   3    12 ms    10 ms     9 ms  po41.sglebbrdr11.aapt.net.au
>> [202.10.14.198]
>>   4     8 ms     9 ms     9 ms  syd-gls-har-wgw1-be-30.tpgi.com.au
>> [203.219.107.197]
>>   5    10 ms    15 ms    14 ms  203.29.134-67.tpgi.com.au [203.29.134.67]
>>   6   173 ms   170 ms   162 ms  100ge13-1.core1.sjc1.he.net
>> [216.218.139.233]
>>   7   308 ms   311 ms   308 ms  10ge2-1.core1.syd1.he.net
>> [184.105.222.86]
>>   8   309 ms   309 ms   309 ms  tserv1.syd1.he.net [216.218.142.50]
>> Trace complete.
>>
>> The first trace looks like it is going over to the US (based on the
>> latency), however the second looks like it is going to the US and
>> back. Anyone else seen anything like this? If there are any HE techs on
>> list, I'd appreciate it if they could please contact me off-list.
>>
>>
>> CH.
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