On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Rock RockSockDoc@gmail.com wrote:
try a traceroute to tempotv.com.tr, which takes 23 hops from my computer.
For the record, I was unable to get to any of these long-hop destinations: $ traceroute tempotv.com.tr ==> died on the 23rd hop $ traceroute -I www.centos.org ==> died on the 19th (penultimate) hop $ traceroute www.gu.ac.ir ==> Iran, died on the 22nd hop $ traceroute www.gu.edu.pk ==> Pakistan, made it only to the 19th hop $ traceroute -m 255 www.tourism.gov.my ==> Malaysia died on the 19th hop
All the above died before reaching their destinations.
Note that traceroute requires a round-trip for you to see success. A failure is almost as likely to mean that the router where it stops does not have a route back to the source as that it can't reach the next forward hop. Those 'looking glass' sites can show you if the bgp routes are propagating to various locations.