[wplug] Verizon misconfiguration?

[Ed Stewart]

Here is what I get with both ping and traceroute just to compare!

ed at ed-desktop:~$ ping www.verizon.net
PING www.verizon.net (206.46.232.39) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=88.1 ms
64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=89.2 ms
64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=90.3 ms
64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=87.0 ms
64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=87.7 ms
^C64 bytes from 206.46.232.39: icmp_seq=6 ttl=245 time=87.7 ms

--- www.verizon.net ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 25929ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 87.044/88.374/90.345/1.109 ms
ed at ed-desktop:~$

ed at ed-desktop:~$ traceroute www.verizon.net
traceroute to www.verizon.net (206.46.232.39), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 dslrouter (192.168.1.1) 7.061 ms 7.174 ms 7.143 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *^C
ed at ed-desktop:~$

Janos Dohanics wrote:
> Yesterday the connection in my house started to get really slow. I have 
> Verizon DSL.
>
> Casual pinging (www.verizon.net) shows:
>
> --- www.verizon.net ping statistics ---
> 114 packets transmitted, 99 packets received, 13% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 439.650/455.840/501.936/15.334 ms
>
> Pretty long ping times...
>
> So, I did traceroute:
>
> $ traceroute www.verizon.net
> traceroute to www.verizon.net (206.46.232.39), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  10.61.70.1 (10.61.70.1)  1.117 ms  0.913 ms  0.595 ms
>  2  10.6.8.1 (10.6.8.1)  402.001 ms *  396.624 ms
>  3  at-1-2-0-1715.CORE-RTR2.PITT2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.13.13)  395.428 ms  
> 395.059 ms  393.617 ms
>  4  so-7-0-0-0.CORE-RTR1.PITT2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.18.254)  408.576 ms  
> 402.801 ms  403.065 ms
>  5  * so-5-0-0-0.BB-RTR1.RES.verizon-gni.net (130.81.20.92)  407.405 ms  
> 430.332 ms
>  6  130.81.17.97 (130.81.17.97)  407.966 ms  407.473 ms *
>  7  130.81.19.78 (130.81.19.78)  439.689 ms  438.633 ms  440.890 ms
>  8  so-1-0-0-0.CORE-RTR1.DFW03.verizon-gni.net (130.81.20.157)  438.217 ms  
> 439.749 ms  438.021 ms
>  9  po1.ctn-border1.vzlink.com (206.46.225.85)  440.523 ms  446.666 ms  
> 447.796 ms
> 10  po121.ctn-core1.vzlink.com (206.46.225.18)  451.012 ms^C
>
> Hmm... my gateway is 10.61.70.1 - why is the next hop 10.6.8.1? I only have a 
> 10.61.70.0/24 LAN, and no 10.6.xxx.xxx network.
>
> Is Verizon misconfigured, or am I missing something?
>
> jd
>
>   

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