[165542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Koch)
Sat Sep 7 20:33:35 2013
In-Reply-To: <522B95CF.2090206@mykolab.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:33:16 -0400
From: Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com>
To: fergdawgster@mykolab.com
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7 September 2013 17:08, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
> "Preliminary analysis of more than 25,000 traceroutes reveals a
> phenomenon we call =91boomerang routing=92 whereby Canadian-to-Canadian
> internet transmissions are routinely routed through the United States.
>
I sincerely hope that nobody in Canada is surprised by this, since it was
already an issue in 1994 (when I was at CA*net).
--=20
Harald