Surely Vocus aren't intentionally providing all APE-connected parties with free transit over to Yahoo in Aus! Can anyone from Vocus confirm whether this is a mistake or whether you're just feeling charitable? :) -jasper On 20/12/2008, at 8:31 PM, Barry Murphy wrote:
Heya,
While drinking beer and playing with the routing table, i notice that mail destined for Xtra:
xtra.co.nz. 799 IN MX 20 mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com. xtra.co.nz. 799 IN MX 10 mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com.
Now goes via Vocus, a new operator selling international bandwidth in NZ:
root(a)accounting:/home/icepick# traceroute mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com traceroute to mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com (124.108.96.67), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 FIREWALL (60.234.66.130) 0.433 ms 0.630 ms 0.389 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 vocus.ape.net.nz (192.203.154.123) 2.029 ms 1.840 ms 3.055 ms 5 ip-42.192.31.114.vocusconnect.net.au (114.31.192.42) 25.294 ms 25.707 ms 26.766 ms 6 as17457-1.bdr02.syd01.nsw.vocusconnect.net.au (114.31.200.38) 26.161 ms 26.152 ms 26.022 ms 7 gi1-2.bas2.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.216.202) 26.164 ms gi1-1.bas1.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.216.198) 26.283 ms 26.306 ms
I find it great that xtra bound MX traffic is now "Local" again as it transits APE, but I find it funny that it's another operator supplying the bandwidth rather than telecom.
I know this may not be news to everyone yet, and yes, it's not the first time I've mentioned (1) vocus in the last week, but from what I can tell they seem to be doing a good job for the NZ internet so far.
(1) I'm in no way affiliated to vocus.
Cheers Barry
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