🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <F8ru77.BB9@kithrup.com>, Mike Stump <mrs@kithrup.com> wrote:
> No sprint, no uunet, no qwest, no backbone (well, technically
> idc.ad.jp appears to be backboning in jp land for gol.net), with MAE
> West in the middle.  This is close to case 1.  But dude, I'm in the
> Bay Area, and the other guy appears to be in jp.  I didn't think we
> were in the same city.  There is a special type of telcom circuit
> called a WAN circuit, it can go to a wide area, not limited to just
> the same city.  Some people at MAE West actually have these special
> types of circuits called WAN circuits.

I can't figure out whether you're talking down to me or just genuinely
amazed by this. A WAN circuit? 

It went across some part of @home's infrastructure (we don't know exactly
what because you deleted that part of the traceroute) to MAE-West, then
across IDC's 155M line to Tokyo, then along their backbone to Global Online.
What is the revelation?

> Oh, and I thought 117 ms to get to .jp was neat in and of it itself.
> Last time I did this, it was at around 400 ms.

This particular miracle is not about backbones, it's about giant undersea
fiber lines.

miguel