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Interesting trace to google this morning.


Tracing route to www.l.google.com [196.23.168.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 17 ms 10 ms 10 ms 41-133-72-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.133.72.1]
3 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms tengig-0-0-0-107.vic-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.158]
4 22 ms 22 ms 25 ms vl-92.vic-hscore-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.189.3]
5 88 ms 66 ms 54 ms tengig-0-0-0-0-12.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.241]
6 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms rrba-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.8.
249]
7 21 ms 22 ms 29 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
43.8.198]
8 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 196.43.25.138
9 125 ms 157 ms 128 ms internet-solutions-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25
.127.182]
10 132 ms 136 ms 135 ms csw3-pkl-gi1-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.201]
11 138 ms 142 ms 146 ms za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com [196.23.1
68.147]

Trace complete.
 
That is a long trace route :D

Mine is:

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [196.23.168.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 113 ms 111 ms 110 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2360.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.133]
4 109 ms 110 ms 111 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
5 109 ms 108 ms 106 ms csw3-pkl-gi1-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.201]
6 108 ms 113 ms 110 ms za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com [196.23.1
68.147]

Trace complete.

Short and sweet :D
 
Google coming out of the closet in SA

root@ubuntu:~ # ping google.com
PING google.com (196.23.168.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 196.23.168.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=39.699 ms
64 bytes from 196.23.168.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=39.673 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 33% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 39.673/39.686/39.699/0.000 ms

Packet loss because my connection is pulling heavy traffic...
 
PS Google.com has been 1/2ms away on some TENET connections for around 3 months now...
 
erhardt said:
mine still showing up as the 209... ip. im on IS. tried the ip and seems good. does this mean mail and everything will be moved (mirrored) to SA
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What DNS server are you using? If you're using OpenDNS or Google DNS it won't work. You must use the IS primary and secondary dns servers: Autoassigned or 168.210.2.2 (Primary) / 196.14.239.2 (Secondary)
 
Whats the deal here? have IS decided to proxy google on their servers? or have google started to build their SA Data Center?
 
Jordan_Za said:
Whats the deal here? have IS decided to proxy google on their servers? or have google started to build their SA Data Center?
Click to expand...
It's more of a mixture between those two. Two major South African ISP's (TENET and IS) have implemented local Google Global Cache servers onto their network. Whether or not Google pushed for it first, or these ISP's had to buy a license to operate, etc., we don't know.
Not all google-based content is currently flowing through these local mirrors yet, for example neither the www.youtube.com front page, nor gmail will run locally, unless you manually force the hostnames to resolve to one of IS/TENET's Google server IP's.
 
fragtion_ said:
What DNS server are you using? If you're using OpenDNS or Google DNS it won't work. You must use the IS primary and secondary dns servers: Autoassigned or 168.210.2.2 (Primary) / 196.14.239.2 (Secondary)
Click to expand...

im using IS dynamic DNS and still showing up as 209... i have however interted it mauually into my router :)
 
At my office (on Mweb business uncapped) the Google hostnames still resolve to international IP addresses...

We've now simply forced the following hostnames to the local Google IP address and it seems to work fine so far:
My google searching & gmail are working, although I couldn't get gtalk (talk.google.com, talk.l.google.com, talkx.l.google.com) to work on the local IP addres :(
 
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