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azuredivay
1y

Bought a new Bare-metal Server in India and SSH to it was visibly slow (even when it's a 1GBpS line)
Did a trace-route via my location in South East Asia

The pings went from SEA -> San Jose (im guessing US) -> … more US -> Chiba (Japan) -> … more Japan -> Singapore -> India.
So it crosses CONTINENTS and OCEANS even though both are in Asia, connected by land.

Also, there's direct submarine cable route to Singapore, so why go to US in the first plane :v

Idk whom to blame but have internet routes always been this unmanaged/inefficient? I was sure DCs go out of their way to ensure the shortest connection route is followed -.- but look at this ffs

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  • 3
    1y
    I believe the shortest route is determined automatically, I recall manually going through the algorithm for building routing tables in college.

    Might have to do with routing protocols too, I found this on how available paths are weighted: https://cisco.com/c/en/...
  • 2
    1y
    @localpost true but within DCs they often have direct hop-paths, I remember coz my internship was in one such company who maintained direct fibre lines to their DCs across continents, and peering with Google etc to use their lines
    So while actual "internet" with random path exists here and there, the long-paths still took managed un-changing lines

    I dont expect that level of coordination but at least cross-country hubs can be better :/
  • 6
    1y
    Going through the US also enables the US to collect the metadata at the very least. Surely a coincidence.
  • 2
    1y
    There's been an incident like that a couple years ago when the traffic was being routed through Russia. But when it's being routed through US, nobody cares...
  • 1
    1y
    @Fast-Nop thats why I went with the pricier Indian one than the cheap US one :v ffs
    @hitko I do care tho T__T
  • 1
    1y
    I work in cloud and have some insight into this.

    Asia always has fuckery. It's been a pain in our butts. Large bandwidth transit providers in Asia are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. A lot of datacenters will prefer suboptimal routes to save costs.
  • 1
    1y
    @lungdart that makes sense, but in case of India we have a tier-1 provider (Tata, if im not mistaken), so at least Asia-India route should've been a smooth-sailing, but u might be right

    I did mail their NOC and they forwarded it within their network-team CC to me, so hopefully it's a case of shit-employee and it gets fixed soon -,-
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