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Interesting traceroute from Vodafone's UMTS network

Tags: Vodafone vodoofone UMTS

Today I had to connect to the net through the company supplied Vodafone (or vodoofone as my wife and I like to call it) UMTS data card and noticed I could not connect to MSN, while things like Sametime, Skype, ICQ & GoogleTalk worked just fine.

curious to see if there was a network issue I tried a tracert to www.hotmail.com and this is what I saw:

nwestra@TPNWST:~$ tracert messenger.hotmail.com

Tracing route to dp.msnmessenger.akadns.net [65.54.239.80]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   305 ms   318 ms   321 ms  10.22.255.254
  2   258 ms   319 ms   321 ms  169.254.58.76
  3   300 ms   349 ms   339 ms  172.22.0.25
  4   295 ms   349 ms   349 ms  169.254.50.6
  5   267 ms   319 ms   319 ms  169.254.50.1
  6   279 ms   318 ms   329 ms  169.254.52.8
  7   258 ms   379 ms   430 ms  169.254.51.6
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete

I just couldn't help but notice the addresses marked in red.

A traceroute to www.hotmail.com shows the same initial hops, but does eventually reach it's destination.