Jonathan Brewer wrote:

Hi Folks,

Anyone with Akamai contacts watching NZNOG today?

I'd like to help them sort out geographic locations of IP address blocks. I think our distributed content should probably not be coming from Japan via the US. :-)

1 210.48.101.113 ip-210-48-101-113.iconz.net.nz 15ms 2 210.48.49.65 f3-0-2.core1.wlg.iconz.net.nz 31ms 3 210.48.118.39 f4-0-4.core1.akl.iconz.net.nz 31ms 4 202.14.100.254 f0-0.gw2.akl.iconz.net.nz 31ms 5 210.48.1.1 f0-0-sl-br-01a.akl.iconz.net 78ms 6 203.222.35.197 sl-gw1-auk-6-0-1.sprintlink.net 78ms 7 203.222.33.22 sl-bb21-syd-1-1.sprintlink.net 94ms 8 203.222.32.49 sl-bb21-syd-14-1.sprintlink.net 109ms 9 144.232.8.130 sl-bb21-sj-3-2.sprintlink.net 250ms 10 144.232.3.210 sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net 265ms 11 144.232.9.240 sl-st21-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net 250ms 12 144.232.19.22 unknown 250ms 13 129.250.5.61 xe-0-1-0.r20.mlpsca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 250ms 14 129.250.4.42 p64-1-3-0.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net 297ms 15 61.213.162.238 xe-0-0-0.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 297ms 16 61.213.162.74 ge-3-0-0.a08.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 297ms 17 61.213.191.201 a61-213-191-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com 0ms

It depends on your upstream, Mine look excellent via TCL or GG upstreams. [root(a)pheonix ~]# traceroute download.windowsvista.com traceroute: Warning: download.windowsvista.com has multiple addresses; using 203.167.223.236 traceroute to a1391.ms.akamai.net (203.167.223.236), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 203-98-6-105.safenz.net.nz (203.98.6.105) 1.427 ms 1.355 ms 1.315 ms 2 g0-90.border2.safenz.net (202.170.160.35) 2.017 ms 1.581 ms 1.589 ms 3 g0-90.border1.safenz.net (202.170.160.34) 2.261 ms 2.118 ms 2.448 ms 4 lnk2-telstraclear.safenz.net (203.167.209.93) 9.111 ms 8.149 ms 8.838 ms 5 218.101.61.45 (218.101.61.45) 27.786 ms 18.901 ms 42.160 ms 6 v927.cs1.akl.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.1) 17.540 ms 17.523 ms 17.824 ms 7 a203-167-223-236.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (203.167.223.236) 17.493 ms 18.003 ms 17.989 ms [root(a)pheonix ~]# [root(a)host1 root]# traceroute download.windowsvista.com traceroute: Warning: download.windowsvista.com has multiple addresses; using 210.55.204.225 traceroute to a1391.ms.akamai.net (210.55.204.225), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 210-55-20-241.cid.global-gateway.net.nz (210.55.20.241) 0.463 ms 0.427 ms 0.411 ms 2 202.37.244.57 (202.37.244.57) 7.399 ms 7.609 ms 7.282 ms 3 ge-0-3-0-6.akbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (202.37.246.18) 6.394 ms 6.390 ms 6.437 ms 4 210.55.204.225 (210.55.204.225) 6.468 ms 6.319 ms 6.503 ms [root(a)host1 root]#