International: Request timed out

[ic]

Is it just me or is there a problem with international routing?
tracert www.bbc.co.uk:

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.240.111]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 60 ms 110 ms 130 ms 196.30.31.100
2 90 ms 230 ms 151 ms 196.30.31.193
3 70 ms 421 ms 60 ms fe6-1.gw10.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.31.254]
4 81 ms 120 ms 50 ms fe4-1-0.cr1.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.33]
5 110 ms 121 ms 240 ms srp5-0-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.2]
6 1993 ms 2063 ms 2203 ms Serial5-0-1.GW3.LND10.Alter.NET [146.188.5.217]
7 2073 ms 2033 ms 2214 ms ge5-0.cr2.lnd10.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.150.33]
8 2203 ms 2153 ms 2003 ms pos1-0.cr2.lnd8.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.253.149]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 1302 ms 1372 ms 1282 ms rt-linx-b.thdo.bbc.co.uk [195.66.226.103]
11 1282 ms 1252 ms 1372 ms 212.58.238.129
12 1502 ms 1432 ms 1502 ms 212.58.238.33
13 1392 ms 1372 ms 1312 ms 212.58.255.213
14 1322 ms 1252 ms 1402 ms rt0-HSSI4-0.kw.bbc.co.uk [212.58.255.34]
15 1362 ms 1302 ms 1342 ms www11.thny.bbc.co.uk [212.58.240.111]

tracert www.netaddress.com:

Tracing route to www.netaddress.com [165.212.8.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 210 ms 150 ms 110 ms 196.30.31.100
2 130 ms 160 ms 160 ms 196.30.31.193
3 60 ms 111 ms 60 ms fe6-1.gw10.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.31.254]
4 150 ms 120 ms 151 ms fe4-1-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.34]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
...
30 * * * Request timed out.
All I can say is, there are definite advantages to having this forum locally hosted :)

[alchamy]

Noticed that as well, also there is no reverse DNS entry, checked with UUNET (they provide WBS IP allocation) this won't be changing anytime soon. This makes hosting web & mail servers less effective. Also if you try ping an Iburst address from the states it gets blocked before it hits South African networks.

[anakin]

Our upstream provider reported a high latency issue Friday 1:22pm, due to a failure on an international circuit. This was resolved at 5:11pm. We apologise for the degraded service experienced by users during this time.

[ic]

Our upstream provider reported a high latency issue Friday 1:22pm, due to a failure on an international circuit. This was resolved at 5:11pm. We apologise for the degraded service experienced by users during this time.Thanks Anakin, luckily local didn't seem to be too affected, so I was not all that concerned. I assumed it was probably out of WBS' control.