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#241023 7-Oct-2018 19:13
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Hey all you GZers!

 

 

 

I was doing a little bit of routing with DN42, just learning a little about how BGP works before I deploy it for real with Vultr, and whilst I was looking at the way traffic flows over public networks and noticed that there seems to be a transparent proxy on the Vodafone Fiber (real, not HFC) network. Is the proxy still a thing, and moreso, wasn't that a HFC thing, in which case, why am I seeing it on my outbound connections?

 

 

 





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  #2102973 7-Oct-2018 19:24
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How are you determining from that traceroute that there's a transparent proxy?

 

A transparent proxy wouldn't actually be a device that routes traffic, so you wouldn't see it in a traceroute




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  #2102975 7-Oct-2018 19:26
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From your MTR to softlayer.com what makes you think there is a transparent proxy ?


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  #2102977 7-Oct-2018 19:35
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I may have mis-spoken. It doesn't appear to be a transparent proxy, however it is within RFC1918 address space, so please forgive me for assumptions. In any case, why is there private address space on the public internet? 





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  #2102981 7-Oct-2018 19:41
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TheoM:

 

I may have mis-spoken. It doesn't appear to be a transparent proxy, however it is within RFC1918 address space, so please forgive me for assumptions. In any case, why is there private address space on the public internet? 

 

 

Vodafone traceroutes have presented their internals on rdns for ages now.

 

 

 

imo it looks horrible and confusing for many, I'm sure they have a reason for it though.





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  #2102986 7-Oct-2018 19:42
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Least your latency is better than 2degrees

 

traceroute to softlayer.com (66.228.119.72), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 router (192.168.1.1) 5.234 ms 2.942 ms 3.266 ms
2 69.7.69.111.static.snap.net.nz (111.69.7.69) 13.218 ms 2.823 ms 3.340 ms
3 * * *
4 as23655.sydney.megaport.com (103.26.68.14) 39.368 ms 36.421 ms 36.641 ms
5 as36351.sydney.megaport.com (103.26.68.102) 39.194 ms 37.265 ms 37.756 ms
6 ae7.bbr01.eq01.syd02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.60) 38.671 ms 38.337 ms 37.698 ms
7 ae3.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (50.97.19.192) 177.955 ms 177.404 ms 177.145 ms
8 ae5.cbs01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (50.97.17.62) 176.736 ms 174.026 ms 190.198 ms
9 ae2.cbs01.dr01.dal04.networklayer.com (169.45.18.6) 206.035 ms * *
10 ae8.cbs01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (169.45.18.70) 491.404 ms 306.710 ms 306.670 ms
11 ae33.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (50.97.17.53) 209.128 ms 405.517 ms 307.793 ms
12 ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253) 306.402 ms
ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211) 306.622 ms
ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253) 248.942 ms
13 po1.slr01.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.138) 213.150 ms
po2.slr01.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.142) 200.703 ms 199.281 ms
14 softlayer.com (66.228.119.72) 202.596 ms 200.537 ms 199.339 ms


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  #2103019 7-Oct-2018 19:49
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dfnt:

 

Least your latency is better than 2degrees

 

 

There is about 10ms difference there, hardly is anything.

 

 

 

Based on your traceroute, looks like possibly wifi to your router.

 

Latency past the first hop doesn't look like fibre, DSL? seems a little high unless your not auckland based.





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  #2103031 7-Oct-2018 20:42
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hio77:

 

dfnt:

 

Least your latency is better than 2degrees

 

 

There is about 10ms difference there, hardly is anything.

 

 

 

Based on your traceroute, looks like possibly wifi to your router.

 

Latency past the first hop doesn't look like fibre, DSL? seems a little high unless your not auckland based.

 

 

Tell that to pro gamers ^_^

 

 


 
 
 
 

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  #2103034 7-Oct-2018 21:13
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dfnt:

 

Tell that to pro gamers ^_^

 

 

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  #2103078 8-Oct-2018 07:25
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Tracing route to softlayer.com [66.228.119.72]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 81.35.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.35.81]
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 76.35.69.111.static.snap.net.nz [111.69.35.76]
4 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms as23655.sydney.megaport.com [103.26.68.14]
5 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms as36351.sydney.megaport.com [103.26.68.102]
6 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae7.bbr01.eq01.syd02.networklayer.com [50.97.19.60]
7 162 ms 161 ms 161 ms ae3.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [50.97.19.192]
8 161 ms * 161 ms ae5.cbs01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [50.97.17.62]
9 189 ms 189 ms 190 ms ae2.cbs01.dr01.dal04.networklayer.com [169.45.18.6]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 190 ms 189 ms 190 ms ae33.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [50.97.17.53]
12 189 ms 188 ms 188 ms ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.253]
13 194 ms 189 ms 189 ms po2.slr01.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.118.142]
14 188 ms 188 ms 188 ms softlayer.com [66.228.119.72]

 

Trace complete.

 

 

 

 


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