[wplug] Verizon misconfiguration?

[Janos Dohanics]

On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:46:07 am Ed Stewart wrote:
> 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

My point is this: if I traceroute from my LAN, the next hop beyond my gateway 
(10.61.70.1) should be a publicly routable IP address, and not 10.6.8.1.

So, I think my connection is misconfigured by Verizon - am I correct?

jd

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Janos Dohanics