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. -- this concludes test 42 of big bang inflation dynamics. in the advent of an actual universe, further instructions will be provided. 000000000000000000000042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170903/5beab343/attachment.html>