Entropy Reducers Amalgamated

Wow. I knew my Verizon FIOS was good, but not this good. Evidently, it’s exactly one hop away from every destination I should like to traceroute to...

$ tracert -d www.jbaltz.com

Tracing route to www.jbaltz.com [74.208.29.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.xxx.yyy.zzz
  2     6 ms     4 ms     4 ms  98.113.aaa.bbb
  3    45 ms    45 ms    45 ms  74.208.29.13

Trace complete.

Hrm...1&1 is one hop from my firewall? Rockin’!
How far am I from some random service provider?

$ tracert -d mail.emailsrvr.com

Tracing route to mail.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.xxx,yyy.zzz
  2     6 ms     5 ms     4 ms  98.113.aaa.bbb
  3    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  207.97.245.100

Trace complete.

Yow! Of course, this is Windows traceroute. From a FreeBSD box, I get somewhat different results:

[jbaltz@iridium ~]$ traceroute -n www.jbaltz.com
traceroute to www.jbaltz.com (74.208.29.13), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.xxx.yyy  0.514 ms  0.359 ms  0.338 ms
 2  98.113.aaa.bbb 4.572 ms  5.229 ms  4.341 ms
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *

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Clearly I’m not the only one seeing this problem, although I am not sure that the link I posted is really relevant...