[133601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Dec 14 01:39:30 2010
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:39:25 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D070D3E.9060404@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 11:07 PM, Backdoor Santa wrote:
>> Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the
>> tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA
>> links.
>
> Forgive me for being the skeptic, but I presume there is at least a
> traceroute with rDNS mentioning one of the 3 10G interfaces on
> gin-nto-icore1 from comcast?
>
> It's not like the image lists the customer name on it; disregarding photoshop
> concerns. At least wikileaks documents look like they came from the
> government and have lots of details. :)
Agreed. There's no independently verifiable detail to lend any credence
to the source(s) of the data. It just shows some 10G links flat-topping
due to saturation. There's not enough here to get particularly excited.
jms
