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		sumedh on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 tran... I was able to open reddit but I was not able to open wikipedia from Australia. So I did a tracert. 6 29 ms syd-sot-ken-int2-be-20.tpgi.com.au [203.219.35.68] 7 197 ms 10ge3-7.core1.sjc1.he.net [72.52.66.21] 8 199 ms 10ge1-4.core1.pao1.he.net [72.52.92.113] 9 * Request timed out.

ryan-c on June 12, 2015 [–]

Looks like it made it to California (San Jose and Palo Alto) with what appears to be a reasonable round trip time. Weird.

Edit: It seems like that must have come through the Southern Cross Cable[0] which is nowhere near Malaysia.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable

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