On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to debug some issues with my internet connection. I have
> Comcast and the traceroute results are not coming back what I expect. On my
> router my routing table looks like this:
>
> >netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 0.0.0.0         73.37.164.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0
> enp1s10
> 73.37.164.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.254.0   U         0 0          0
> enp1s10
>
> Given that, I expect the first hop in a traceroute to be 73.37.164.1, but
> it's not.
> >traceroute -n 8.8.8.8
> traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  96.120.48.69  8.890 ms  14.915 ms  15.659 ms
>  2  68.85.168.121  14.833 ms  15.604 ms  15.575 ms
>  3  96.108.188.62  14.502 ms  14.484 ms  14.665 ms
>  4  96.108.188.101  15.455 ms  16.596 ms  16.574 ms
>  5  68.86.94.81  28.011 ms  26.859 ms  26.841 ms
>  6  68.86.85.158  24.289 ms  19.757 ms  22.386 ms
> ...
>
> Can anyone explain what's going on here?
>

your traceroute addresses starting with 68.85.168.121 identify as comcast
hosts.  it just looks like the box doing the traceroute isn't routed
through the box you call your router.

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