Discussions of Networking

Tier 1, 2 and 3 ISPs pertaining to my area.

2007-09-05T09:52:00.000-04:00

List of Tier 1: AOL, AT&T, Global Crossing, Level 3, Verizon Business, NTT Communications, Qwest, SAVVIS, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Telia Sonera

List of Tier 2: PCCW, Cogent Communications, France Telecom, Tiscali International, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Mzima Networks, nLayer, Limelight Network

List of Tier 3: Seaviwe ISP, Glide Broadband, Ranburne Broadband, Thorsby Broadband

The Route to Asia through my school.

2007-09-05T09:43:00.001-04:00

traceroute to 166.66.64.36 (166.66.64.36), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 vlan250.lon-service6.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.2.177) 0.48 ms 0.296 ms 0.256 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
2 TenGigE0-12-0-2.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.79.129) 1.086 ms 1.126 ms 1.134 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
3 Bundle-Pos1.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.21) 33.84 ms 13.827 ms 14.379 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
4 Port-Channel1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.29) 13.153 ms 13.074 ms 13.211 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
5 10GigabitEthernet2-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.com (203.50.13.50) 26.164 ms 202.952 ms 208.606 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
6 i-13-0.wil-core02.net.reach.com (202.84.141.109) 166.278 ms 166.259 ms 166.183 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
7 i-3-1.wil03.net.reach.com (202.84.251.166) 172.707 ms 172.85 ms 172.761 ms Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
8 ge-6-20.car3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.111.133) 172.873 ms 172.858 ms 172.911 ms Level 3 Communications, Inc.
9 ae-1-55.bbr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.129) 173.015 ms 173.168 ms ae-1-53.bbr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.65) 166.765 ms Level 3 Communications, Inc
10 so-1-0-0.mp1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (209.247.8.69) 238.794 ms 238.241 ms so-3-0-0.mp2.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (64.159.0.142) 294.156 ms Level 3 Communications, Inc
11 so-11-0.hsa1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (64.159.0.154) 238.793 ms 238.842 ms so-10-0.hsa1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (64.159.0.146) 238.718 ms Level 3 Communications, Inc
12 level3-16.internap.com (63.208.96.178) 238.947 ms 237.991 ms 239.3 ms Level 3 Communications, Inc
13 border3.ge3-0-bbnet2.phi.pnap.net (216.52.64.71) 232.547 ms 231.799 ms 231.701 ms InterNAP Network Services, PNAP-PHI PNAP-PHI-INAP-BB-1
14 compen-4.border3.phi.pnap.net (216.52.66.234) 234.329 ms 233.698 ms 233.787 ms InterNAP Network Services, PNAP-PHI PNAP-PHI-INAP-BB-2
15 * * *
16 fgt-external.net.millersville.edu (192.206.29.254) 238.346 ms 240.489 ms 238.134 ms Millersville University
17 166.66.251.23 (166.66.251.23) 245.394 ms 275.764 ms 251.154 ms Millersville University
18 kahan.csdomain.millersville.edu (166.66.64.36) 238.806 ms 237.806 ms 238.471 ms Millersville University

An interesting aspect of this route occurs during steps 13 and 14 of the route.
The NAP in Philly actually receives this signal, 2 times.

This route is millions of times more proficient than the route Chris Callis (aliased TreeBurger) chose to travel.

iPhone News and other tidbits

2007-09-04T22:40:00.000-04:00

http://i.cmpnet.com/ads/graphics/as5/redirect/redirect_ricoh_20070904.html?RDNAME=ricoh_20070904&RDCK_set=60&count=25&rdLock=57240292&RDADD=57240292&redirect=http%3A//www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DOARMGK5S3SODEQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN%3FarticleID%3D201802754%26articleID%3D201802754&RDHREF=http%3A//www.ricoh-usa.com/itchannel&RDIMP=&RDFL=1&RDALT=jpg

The above link discusses a new added feature to the new iPhone, offering outlook connection and remote PCs.

I'm sure everyone has heard of google earth by this point. It's pretty easy to hop on there and track down chris callis, the zoom allows for you to see him walking into any of the gay bars he goes into (just kidding buddy).
But why the mention of google earth? I found out about google moon today and thought i'd mention it, it's pretty funny. Also some kid in my geology class pointed out that if you use googlemap to go to europe it tells you as part of the directions "swim across ___ocean for ____miles".

Viral attacks on Blogger.com

2007-09-02T13:04:00.000-04:00

Dr.Mollah posted a link to an article regarding viral attacks on blogger.com. After reading it and fully understanding it, which i urge everyone else from 395 to read, i had one thought. "Why Dr.Mollah? Why are you making us use a site with tons of viruses on it?"

But seriously, turns out it is rather easy to avoid the viruses.

2007-08-31T14:45:00.000-04:00

It seems my blog is a real hit, at least with three people and my professor!

Most of the class did poorly in the pop-quiz we took. They apparently weren't aware that we had to read all of those articles. I was one of them.

The one who did the worst was Chris Callis (as usual). He one time answered a question about how long a processor takes to process some request with "500 byte".

Anyways, networking is sweet.

Chris Callis

2007-08-29T09:34:00.000-04:00

Hes a really weird kid. A 24 year old kid in fact. He likes pencils.