So I am the only one using my 5 MG internet connection and I am not running anything else. Linux Questions.org is taking 20 seconds to load. Has anyone else noticed this?

- Chris

No, everything seems fine here (northern Europe). Does a traceroute reveal anything unusual?

--- linuxquestions.org ping statistics ---
22 packets transmitted, 21 received, 4% packet loss, time 21044ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 48.003/54.275/61.217/3.369 ms

[root@monkey ~]# traceroute linuxquestions.org
traceroute to linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 2.595 ms 3.296 ms 4.409 ms
2 adsl-98-70-179-1.gnv.bellsouth.net (98.70.179.1) 16.115 ms 18.441 ms 20.806 ms
3 70.159.215.63 (70.159.215.63) 27.426 ms 29.818 ms 32.271 ms
4 12.81.80.6 (12.81.80.6) 34.655 ms 37.264 ms 39.617 ms
5 12.81.80.5 (12.81.80.5) 42.324 ms 44.754 ms 47.218 ms
6 12.83.23.182 (12.83.23.182) 50.827 ms 25.106 ms 20.838 ms
7 12.81.28.13 (12.81.28.13) 18.869 ms 21.439 ms 23.783 ms
8 74.175.192.206 (74.175.192.206) 26.329 ms 28.807 ms 31.531 ms
9 cr2.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.122.106.70) 39.865 ms 43.683 ms 44.132 ms
10 cr81.fldfl.ip.att.net (12.122.1.46) 46.050 ms 50.057 ms 54.963 ms
11 12.122.155.169 (12.122.155.169) 55.485 ms 58.950 ms 59.437 ms
12 192.205.36.254 (192.205.36.254) 59.156 ms 39.321 ms 39.129 ms
13 ae-2-52.edge1.Miami2.Level3.net (4.69.138.107) 41.394 ms ae-1-51.edge1.Miami2.Level3.net (4.69.138.75) 43.510 ms 46.689 ms
14 te2-5.bbr01.tm01.mia01.networklayer.com (4.59.240.14) 42.408 ms 44.887 ms 47.073 ms
15 ae7.bbr01.tm01.mia01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.174) 39.424 ms 41.714 ms 44.195 ms
16 ae1.bbr01.sr02.hou02.networklayer.com (173.192.18.162) 90.912 ms 93.499 ms 67.086 ms
17 ae3.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.218) 50.538 ms 53.246 ms 55.655 ms
18 ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211) 259.763 ms ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253) 260.106 ms ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211) 260.574 ms
19 po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.182) 261.443 ms po1.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.178) 260.912 ms 261.700 ms
20 www.linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205) 262.204 ms 262.669 ms 49.881 ms
[root@monkey ~]#


Networklayer.com 260.574 ms timeframe +

Giant lags here in Florida, USA

networklayer.org is out of miami, fl usa

- Chris

Funny traffic out of networklayer.org

looks like they are routing it across the united states and then back to miami

[root@monkey ~]# dig networklayer.org

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.16.rc1.el6 <<>> networklayer.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62296
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;networklayer.org. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
networklayer.org. 10800 IN A 174.127.164.65

;; Query time: 81 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 21 21:17:47 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50

[root@monkey ~]# traceroute 174.127.164.65
traceroute to 174.127.164.65 (174.127.164.65), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 4.158 ms 4.558 ms 5.865 ms
2 adsl-98-70-179-1.gnv.bellsouth.net (98.70.179.1) 15.413 ms 18.070 ms 20.588 ms
3 70.159.215.18 (70.159.215.18) 27.054 ms 29.483 ms 32.062 ms
4 12.81.80.6 (12.81.80.6) 34.251 ms 36.936 ms 39.404 ms
5 12.81.80.1 (12.81.80.1) 42.111 ms 44.265 ms 47.005 ms
6 12.83.23.182 (12.83.23.182) 52.485 ms 19.991 ms 20.567 ms
7 12.81.28.15 (12.81.28.15) 19.020 ms 21.698 ms 23.898 ms
8 74.175.192.10 (74.175.192.10) 28.832 ms 78.600 ms 79.094 ms
9 cr1.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.122.106.10) 45.819 ms 49.718 ms 50.195 ms
10 cr2.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.31.29) 55.090 ms 58.736 ms 59.231 ms
11 attga04jt.ip.att.net (12.122.84.149) 60.104 ms 61.639 ms 64.070 ms
12 67.111.23.89.ptr.us.xo.net (67.111.23.89) 47.865 ms 28.344 ms 27.069 ms
13 vb2000d1.rar3.atlanta-ga.us.xo.net (207.88.13.154) 30.947 ms 34.593 ms 38.477 ms
14 te-3-0-0.rar3.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (207.88.12.2) 115.953 ms 116.420 ms 127.797 ms
15 te-3-2-0.rar3.denver-co.us.xo.net (207.88.12.42) 120.942 ms 124.833 ms 125.252 ms
16 te-3-0-0.rar3.seattle-wa.us.xo.net (207.88.12.81) 106.862 ms 107.271 ms 108.249 ms
17 ae0d0.cir1.seattle7-wa.us.xo.net (207.88.13.141) 108.744 ms 110.947 ms 105.781 ms
18 216.156.100.14.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.100.14) 103.961 ms 106.486 ms 108.816 ms
19 br1-firsthill-g1-0-28.bb.spectrumnet.us (216.243.29.138) 112.234 ms 101.941 ms 104.188 ms
20 br1-watermark-g1-0-27.bb.spectrumnet.us (216.243.29.122) 107.352 ms 109.534 ms 111.989 ms
21 br1-atlasdc-g1-0-26.bb.spectrumnet.us (216.243.29.146) 118.135 ms 102.611 ms 105.147 ms
22 174.127.131.66 (174.127.131.66) 110.412 ms 110.865 ms 111.992 ms
23 66.171.176.15 (66.171.176.15) 118.115 ms 119.586 ms 120.175 ms
24 216.243.11.118 (216.243.11.118) 123.887 ms 125.850 ms 102.161 ms
25 174.127.164.65 (174.127.164.65) 104.498 ms 106.968 ms 110.138 ms

From ~50 to 260 ms in one hop. Also, note the load balancing. Perhaps the've lost an uplink (or more).

Prolly transient. Traffic coming into Softlayer showed some unreachables near Dallas TX a few hours earlier today.

It is picking up but I think they might need to update the software on that router

19 po1.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.178) 56.020 ms po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.182) 60.677 ms 62.530 ms
20 www.linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205) 74.341 ms 61.943 ms 63.948 ms

- Chris

What evidence are you basing your ace assessment on if you don't mind me asking?

It was just a general thought