[TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together,

[krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)]

WAY off-topic. Sorry.

On 2/9/2017 2:54 PM, Corey Lindsly wrote:
> 3ms? Really? I'm impressed, and I'd like to see your traceroute. We peer
> directly with Google and I get 4-5ms. Do share.
>
>

Two fiber connections here to Verizon FIOS, one business, one residential:

FIOS business fiber 50M/50M in New York, Long Island to be exact, low 
4's, high 3's:

root at hnet1:/data/tmp# ping -s 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=0. 
time=4.167 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=1. 
time=3.871 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=2. 
time=4.062 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=3. 
time=4.093 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=4. 
time=4.050 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=5. 
time=3.900 ms

root at hnet1:/data/tmp# traceroute -t 2 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  <removed> (<removed>)  0.598 ms  0.615 ms 0.559 ms
  2  B3384.NYCMNY-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net (100.41.217.224) 2.884 ms  
3.137 ms  3.903 ms
  3  * * *
  4  0.ae11.GW13.NYC1.ALTER.NET (140.222.234.191)  2.719 ms 
0.ae13.GW13.NYC1.ALTER.NET (140.222.234.193)  2.560 ms 
0.ae11.GW13.NYC1.ALTER.NET (140.222.234.191)  2.377 ms
  5  google-gw.customer.alter.net (204.148.18.206)  62.332 ms  56.885 
ms  55.203 ms
  6  209.85.247.33 (209.85.247.33)  2.885 ms  2.771 ms 2.735 ms
  7  108.170.233.235 (108.170.233.235)  2.936 ms 108.170.235.13 
(108.170.235.13)  3.490 ms 108.170.233.233 (108.170.233.233)  3.152 ms
  8  google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8)  3.495 ms * *

FIOS residential 150/150M, low 3's:

medusa# ping -s 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=0. 
time=3.497 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=1. 
time=3.286 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=2. 
time=3.368 ms
64 bytes from google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8): icmp_seq=3. 
time=3.315 ms

Traceroute not available without altering my Cisco ASA config.

I think it's entirely possible that 8.8.8.8 is more than one host, and 
depending on geographical location you're being routed to any of a 
number of actual hosts ;)

Speed of light from New York to California is approximately 1.3ms. I 
can't imagine all these routers don't add SOMETHING to do the latency... 
so I can't see how I can ping a California hosts in the low 3 ms area.