[133609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Seagraves)
Tue Dec 14 08:27:07 2010
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1012140134410.26354@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:26:57 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Jack Bates wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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?
>>=20
>> 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. :)
>=20
> 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.
On the 30-day graph, there's a flat spot in the data that corresponds =
with the Comcast outage on the 28th, but that's not a sure thing.
