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Strange IPv4 traceroute to uschi01 
  Shadow Hawkins on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:57:51
I'm on a cable modem in San Diego, CA at the moment, and this traceroute to the Chicago POP is just bizarre.  Why the heck is is routing through the UK and back?
$ /usr/sbin/traceroute uschi01.sixxs.net
traceroute to uschi01.sixxs.net (66.39.212.2), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.838 ms  1.374 ms  3.217 ms
 2  10.80.0.1 (10.80.0.1)  14.500 ms  11.198 ms  11.865 ms
 3  cvsdca1-rtr1-ge2-4.san.rr.com (24.25.196.57)  12.370 ms  12.097 ms  14.855 ms
 4  wcsdca1-gsr1-srp0.san.rr.com (24.25.196.1)  8.511 ms  58.796 ms  11.554 ms
 5  tustca1-rtr1-s0-0-2.san.rr.com (24.25.193.18)  15.527 ms  14.818 ms  12.598 ms
 6  gig2-0-0.lsanca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com (66.75.161.157)  14.863 ms  16.754 ms  16.850 ms
 7  pop1-las-P5-0.atdn.net (66.185.143.5)  23.410 ms  17.900 ms  16.404 ms
 8  p16-1-2-3.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.9.73)  38.362 ms  23.612 ms  16.276 ms
 9  p64-2-1-0.r21.mlpsca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.22)  25.627 ms  26.629 ms  26.752 ms
     MPLS Label=724850 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=0
10  p64-0-0-0.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.22)  41.676 ms  55.040 ms  41.059 ms
     MPLS Label=676336 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=0 TTL=2 S=0
11  xe-1-3-0.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.17)  107.099 ms  43.061 ms  40.163 ms
     MPLS Label=527888 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=0 TTL=3 S=0
12  p64-0-0-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.17)  99.296 ms  104.493 ms  103.355 ms
     MPLS Label=110673 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=0 TTL=4 S=0
13  p64-2-1-0.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.39)  168.908 ms  169.823 ms  172.799 ms
     MPLS Label=550640 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=0 TTL=5 S=0
14  xe-0-2-0.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.66)  174.004 ms  190.713 ms  168.921 ms
     MPLS Label=282864 CoS=2 TTL=1 S=1
15  xe-3-1.r01.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.46)  171.784 ms  170.452 ms  181.008 ms
16  catalyst2-0.a01.londen03.uk.ra.gin.ntt.net (213.130.48.214)  251.175 ms  168.586 ms  167.899 ms
17  crt1-the-gi0-1.router.uk.catalyst2.net (84.18.192.1)  168.774 ms  173.185 ms  168.971 ms
18  * * *
19  52.ge0-0.cr2.lhr1.uk.occaid.net (216.93.254.150)  186.575 ms  228.136 ms  178.377 ms
20  ae0-23.cr1.ewr1.us.occaid.net (216.93.254.146)  170.467 ms  173.183 ms  184.719 ms
21  dontmatter.midphase.com (205.234.148.199)  179.071 ms  183.116 ms  179.091 ms
22  uschi01.sixxs.net (66.39.212.2)  180.756 ms  180.252 ms  180.808 ms
 
Strange IPv4 traceroute to uschi01 
Seems that RR uses NTT as an upstream and that at the moment you looked NTT only knew how to reach the prefix where uschi01 is located over the UK... odd.
 
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