HE.net pings between Fremont1 and Moscow, Russia
I’m on the lookout to getting some hosting from HE.net in Fremont. So far, on multiple occasions, they seem to have very weird ping times to webdc.ru in Moscow, about 60ms slower than the competition. This is even after the HE upgrade news from 2011-11-18.
# traceroute fremont1.linode.com; date
traceroute to fremont1.linode.com (64.71.152.17), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 gw.webdc.ru (188.120.247.254) 1.137 ms 5.414 ms 0.997 ms
2 92.63.108.89 (92.63.108.89) 0.511 ms 1.493 ms 0.705 ms
3 xe012-438.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.254.61) 1.671 ms 1.685 ms 1.427 ms
4 ae2-6.RT.TC1.STO.SE.retn.net (87.245.233.134) 25.019 ms 24.852 ms 28.651 ms
5 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.sto1.he.net (194.68.123.187) 26.656 ms 25.006 ms 25.341 ms
6 10gigabitethernet3-3.core1.fra1.he.net (72.52.92.233) 53.423 ms 51.915 ms 52.358 ms
7 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.par1.he.net (72.52.92.89) 68.890 ms 62.675 ms 58.917 ms
8 10gigabitethernet7-1.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.213.93) 142.921 ms 142.972 ms 143.390 ms
9 10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.177) 267.813 ms
10gigabitethernet7-1.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.213.93) 143.011 ms 142.574 ms
10 10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.177) 260.838 ms 260.449 ms 257.843 ms
11 * * *
12 fremont1.linode.com (64.71.152.17) 257.255 ms 257.337 ms 257.404 ms
0.000u 0.015s 0:20.90 0.0% 20+176k 1+0io 0pf+0w
Sun Nov 20 22:22:46 EST 2011
Per looking glass at http://lg.he.net/, it seems like the reason for the slowness: the traffic from Fremont back to Russia goes through Tokyo:
core1.fmt1.he.net> traceroute 82.146.60.12 source-ip 216.218.252.161 numeric Target 82.146.60.12 Hop Start 1 Hop End 30 Hop Packet 1 Packet 2 Packet 3 Hostname 1 6 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.123.123.2 2 126 ms 126 ms 126 ms 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.tyo1.he.net (72.52.92.238) 3 242 ms 234 ms 242 ms 9002.tyo.equinix.com (203.190.230.36) 4 274 ms 265 ms 263 ms ae1-9.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.233.13) 5 260 ms 283 ms 264 ms xe000-468.webdc.ru (87.245.254.62) 6 275 ms 274 ms 280 ms 92.63.108.91 7 262 ms 267 ms 277 ms mojo.su (82.146.60.12)Vs. residential AT&T U-verse FTTH in San Jose:
% traceroute mojo.su ; date traceroute to mojo.su (82.146.60.12), 32 hops max, 40 byte packets 5 12.83.39.137 (12.83.39.137) 2.112 ms 1.610 ms 1.550 ms 6 ggr6.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.86.89) 2.832 ms 2.893 ms 2.787 ms 7 192.205.32.206 (192.205.32.206) 5.821 ms 4.915 ms 4.831 ms 8 vlan90.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.152.254) 5.553 ms vlan60.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.152.62) 5.632 ms vlan90.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.152.254) 5.541 ms 9 ae-81-81.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.9) 5.645 ms ae-71-71.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.5) 6.551 ms ae-81-81.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.9) 6.185 ms 10 ae-2-2.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.135.186) 74.987 ms 75.426 ms 75.202 ms 11 ae-62-62.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.34) 86.278 ms ae-82-82.csw3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.42) 76.841 ms ae-62-62.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.34) 79.774 ms 12 ae-61-61.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.65) 75.636 ms ae-71-71.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.69) 74.954 ms ae-61-61.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.65) 74.319 ms 13 ae-43-43.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.137.73) 143.784 ms ae-44-44.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.137.77) 142.820 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.137.65) 143.232 ms 14 ae-24-24.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.148.198) 152.786 ms ae-22-22.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.148.190) 152.841 ms 154.634 ms 15 ae-72-72.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.22) 151.892 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.30) 152.652 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.18) 153.116 ms 16 ae-4-90.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.199) 152.917 ms ae-3-80.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.135) 162.515 ms ae-1-60.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.7) 152.150 ms 17 dialup-212.162.19.30.frankfurt1.mik.net (212.162.19.30) 152.836 ms 153.561 ms 153.265 ms 18 ae1-9.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.233.13) 197.192 ms 197.273 ms ae2-4.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.233.25) 198.449 ms 19 xe000-468.webdc.ru (87.245.254.62) 196.588 ms 197.368 ms 196.961 ms 20 92.63.108.91 (92.63.108.91) 196.286 ms 197.651 ms 196.957 ms 21 mojo.su (82.146.60.12) 197.293 ms 200.423 ms 199.022 ms Sun 20 Nov 2011 19:25:17 PST
