[IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Richard Johnson <rdump@river.com>
Date: May 27, 2005 12:25:19 PM EDT
To: Carl Malamud <carl@media.org>
Cc: David Farber <dave@farber.net>, rdump@river.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star  
Wars'


At 07:39 -0400 on 2005-05-27, David Farber wrote:

> From: Carl Malamud <carl@media.org>
> Date: May 26, 2005 11:00:13 PM EDT
> ...
> That, in turn, yields this traceroute:
>
> 15  unknown.level3.net (64.156.191.10)  62.733 ms  44.501 ms   
> 45.521 ms
> 16  inet-sdsc-sdsc2--lax-isp-ge.cenic.net (137.164.24.206)  68.372
> ms  47.105 ms  53.644 ms
> 17  medusa.sdsc.edu (132.249.30.10)  49.865 ms  48.938 ms  48.747 ms
> 18  www.dhs.gov (192.31.21.68)  52.224 ms  49.003 ms  47.183 ms
>
> So, unless dhs is tunelling inside of sdsc, this looks like
> it might be somewhat suspect.  :)


That may just be your "closest" akamai accelerator, or an akamai base  
node
of some kind if they have no cache close to you.

Here's a shorter traceroute from a workstation at a university with  
transit
through the frgp.net gigapop:

% host www.dhs.gov
www.dhs.gov is a nickname for www.dhs.gov.edgesuite.net
www.dhs.gov.edgesuite.net is a nickname for a830.g.akamai.net
a830.g.akamai.net has address 192.43.217.199
a830.g.akamai.net has address 192.43.217.200

% traceroute -q 1 www.dhs.gov
traceroute: Warning: a830.g.akamai.net has multiple addresses; using
192.43.217.199
traceroute to a830.g.akamai.net (192.43.217.199), 30 hops max, 40  
byte packets
...
 4  a192-43-217-199.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (192.43.217.199)   
12.298 ms

Of course, it's still suspect, just for other reasons. ;-)


Richard


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