Re: Problems at Microsoft?

["Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler () gmail com>]

Richard,

Check this out...

Tracing route to download.microsoft.com.c.footprint.net [210.8.118.62]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  3    10 ms    12 ms    15 ms  btnrsysc01-gex0405.br.br.cox.net
  4    26 ms    15 ms    15 ms  ip24-248-104-85.br.br.cox.net
  5    12 ms    17 ms     8 ms  btnrbbrc01-pos0101.rd.br.cox.net
  6    19 ms    64 ms    25 ms  dllsbbrc02-pos0102.rd.dl.cox.net
  7    26 ms    25 ms    17 ms  dllsbbrc01-pos0003.rd.dl.cox.net
  8    47 ms    46 ms    42 ms  chndbbrc02-pos0300.rd.ph.cox.net
  9    54 ms    61 ms    63 ms  nwstbbrc01-pos0203.rd.lv.cox.net 
 10    77 ms    74 ms    84 ms  paltbbrj01-so100.r2.pt.cox.net 
 11    77 ms    73 ms    79 ms  f0-0.pabr1.netgate.net.nz
 12   260 ms   254 ms   226 ms  210.55.202.193
 13   224 ms   221 ms   223 ms  p4-1.sybr3.global-gateway.net.nz 
 14   222 ms   226 ms   221 ms  p6-0.sybr2.global-gateway.net.nz
 15   225 ms   222 ms   224 ms  203.96.120.126
 16   222 ms   225 ms   224 ms  gigabitethernet0-2.cor6.hay.connect.com.au 
 17   254 ms   234 ms   277 ms  210.8.118.62

New Zeland and Australia? Me thinks someone goofed. And what's really
strange is that Monday I ran this exact same traceroute for
informational purposes and at or around hop #7 - cox dallas handed off
to atlanta who handed off to msn.net directly.

Odd.

JWP

On 8/3/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Completely unrelated, but apparently Vonage is also
> having some problems this morning:
>
> http://gigaom.com/2005/08/03/massive-vonage-outage/
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:44:40AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> >             Hi there, we've had a few complaints about connectivity
> > issues to Microsoft, is anyone else seeing a problem? Usually I get
> > between 2-3MBps when I download from them, at the moment I get 8k/sec
> > downloading
> > http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/2/b624b535-644a-41e1-9727-812
> > dcd6bad87/E3SP1ENG.EXE (service pack 1 for exchange 03) from Both my
> > network, and a monitoring server we have in chicago.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this?
>
> Seeing this from several locations. For all the locations I am looking
> from, it appears that their CDN service (Savvis footprint.net) has gone
> insane.
>
> From SBC on the west coast, it is going to what looks for all the
> world to be a cable modem in Korea:
>
> 19  catv09634.usr.hananet.net (210.180.96.34)  292.576 ms  218.396 ms  242.135 ms
>
> From a cable modem in Seattle behind broadwing, it is going to this,
> behind SBC in southern California:
>
> 16    62 ms     61ms     50 ms  Savvis-CDN-IAF1075825.cust-rtr.pacbell.net [69.108.147.58]
>
> From the northern VA area:
>
>  7  cdn-colo.Frankfurtfrx.savvis.net (208.174.60.2)  90.626 ms  90.722 ms  90.661 ms
>
> Makes you wonder if they'll be switching back to Akamai soon. :)
>
> --
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
> GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)