[Outages-discussion] [outages] Vocus routing US Salesforce.com traffic through Australia?

[Jay Hennigan]

We're seeing routing to Australia as well via direct peering with Vocus 
in Los Angeles. Judging from the latency, the target host seems to be in 
Australia and not coming back to the US.


$ traceroute --resolve-hostnames 23.1.35.132
traceroute to 23.1.35.132 (23.1.35.132), 64 hops max
   1   207.154.71.210 (gi2-46.border0.gta.impulse.net)  0.314ms  0.274ms 
  0.277ms
   2   205.254.246.12 (xe2-0-1-418-border2.lax.impulse.net)  2.725ms 
2.619ms  2.669ms
   3   206.72.210.136 (vocus-connect-pty.as4826.any2ix.coresite.com) 
3.017ms  3.119ms  3.136ms
   4   114.31.199.34 (be101.bdr03.sjc01.ca.us.vocus.network)  159.183ms 
  159.207ms  158.747ms
   5   114.31.199.33 (be100.bdr04.sjc01.ca.us.vocus.network)  162.070ms 
  *  *
   6   114.31.199.40 (be203.cor01.syd11.nsw.vocus.network)  161.883ms 
161.873ms  161.874ms
   7   49.255.173.74 (static-74.173.255.49.in-addr.VOCUS.net.au) 
382.480ms  165.217ms  160.404ms
   8   23.1.240.229 (a23-1-240-229.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com) 
  158.952ms  158.603ms  158.626ms
   9   *  *  *
  10   49.255.173.73 (static-73.173.255.49.in-addr.VOCUS.net.au) 
159.055ms  159.083ms  159.116ms
  11   23.1.35.132 (a23-1-35-132.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com) 
158.496ms  158.488ms  158.504ms


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Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV