Hi everyone,
Just did a tracert on vodafone fibre home connection to google.com, here is the result:
C:\Users\demo>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [203.109.178.84]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms OpenWrt.lan [192.168.1.1]
2 23 ms 3 ms 2 ms 118-92-27-254.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz [118.92.27.254]
3 3 ms 4 ms 2 ms 203-109-179-130.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz [203.109.179.
130]
4 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 203-109-178-84.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz [203.109.178.8
4]
Trace complete.
Looks like vodafone has got a local google server, can someone confirm this?
I check the ssl certificate of the address https://203.109.178.84/ and it confirms the cert belong to google.com. So I am just a few hop away from the server? It is just hard for me to believe. I know it is easy to add a middle man on the network and pretend as the real guy. For example, in my home network i have a google dns.
C:\Users\demo>tracert 8.8.8.8
Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms OpenWrt.lan [192.168.1.1]
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms MikroTik.lan [192.168.1.132]
3 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\demo>ping 8.8.8.8
Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=63
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=63
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=63
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
Control-C
^C
Is the vodafone google server suspicious or just I am too paranoid ...