online oddity ....

[Jon Radel]

On 1/7/15 6:23 PM, zep wrote:

 > actually ip2location says it's in st. louis, too. I'd think it is in 
st. louis.
<snip>
  6  xe-10-0-1.edge2.washington4.level3.net (4.53.115.133)  10.420 ms
     xe-11-1-2.edge2.washington4.level3.net (4.53.115.117)  10.549 ms
     xe-5-0-0.edge2.washington4.level3.net (4.53.114.29)  10.548 ms
  7  ae-5-5.car2.stlouis1.level3.net (4.69.201.2)  32.324 ms  30.589 ms  
32.513 ms
  8  4.28.92.190 (4.28.92.190)  54.423 ms  45.302 ms  46.338 ms
  9  pacific1416.serverprofi24.eu (209.239.123.90)  46.576 ms  46.623 
ms  45.754 ms

 From here traceroute is pretty conclusive that they hook into Level3 in 
St. Louis.  The use of an .eu name for reverse DNS would indicate 
involvement of a European company, or at least one which does 
significant business in Europe.

Or they're just working extra hard to obscure things for you Tor users....

--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com

P.S.  I was even bored enough to trace from my Zurich equipment just in 
case they were doing something really weird like anycasting. That trace 
followed Cogent across the Atlantic all the way to St. Louis.  :-)

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