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:: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 ::
Routing problems with Flickr
tech: seems like San Jose Ca is not the place to be when it comes to having reliable internet connections over the past couple of days. Especially if you are Flickr. I have been sick since Sunday evening with some bug or other so when not dozing and drinking lots of liquids etc, I thought it would be a good idea to drag the laptop to bed and go through some Flickr sites and check out more than just the few favourites i normally scope out.
Well, it was sluggish so I thought I would run a tracert as part of the throughput troubleshooting. Was only a few routers in the Palo Alto node of teleglobe.net that were a problem and then the Yahoo routers themselves. It is rare you see 1200ms results in a tracert regularly:
C:\tracert www.flickr.com
Tracing route to www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.214.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 60 ms 59 ms 55 ms 64.230.197.53
2 54 ms 55 ms 55 ms 64.230.238.221
3 59 ms 59 ms 55 ms 64.230.240.177
4 64 ms 59 ms 63 ms 64.230.242.189
5 57 ms 62 ms 59 ms 64.230.242.197
6 61 ms 63 ms 63 ms bx3-toronto12-pos5-0.in.bellnexxia.net [206.108.
107.234]
7 57 ms 59 ms 63 ms if-7-0.core1.TTT-Scarborough.teleglobe.net [209.
58.25.69]
8 151 ms 155 ms 151 ms if-3-3.mcore3.NJY-Newark.teleglobe.net [216.6.57
.33]
9 154 ms 151 ms 151 ms if-5-0.mcore4.NQT-NewYork.teleglobe.net [216.6.5
7.14]
10 154 ms 155 ms 175 ms if-4-0.mcore4.PDI-PaloAlto.teleglobe.net [216.6.
86.13]
11 153 ms 151 ms 151 ms if-5-0.core2.PDI-PaloAlto.teleglobe.net [216.6.8
6.6]
12 1258 ms 1244 ms 1159 ms ix-1-0.core2.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [64.86.8
4.146]
13 1167 ms 1200 ms 1208 ms so-1-0-0.pat1.dax.yahoo.com [216.115.101.133]
14 1225 ms 1204 ms 1220 ms UNKNOWN-216-115-104-101.yahoo.com [216.115.104.1
01]
15 1194 ms * 1191 ms v203.bas3.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.209.5]
16 1167 ms 1152 ms 1168 ms www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.214.24]
Trace complete.
It was like that most of the day and only settled down to normal-ish results late into the evening. And now it is back up to being crap again. So of course I emailed the teleglobe.net folks and included part of my tracert results. :)
I figure if their boxes are on a path to Flickr for most - if not all- people, then they have a million customer base group from around the world that are being affected. And I am sure they know about it, but if not, they do now.
Carpe Diem
:: Mike Wood 11:21 [+] :: 0 comments
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