Indian-Networks

BSNL-Level3 bad routing case

Quick analysis of BSNL-Level3 bad routing issue

I can see BSNL having pretty high latency again with most of Europe again. It seems like they are using Level3 Communications AS 3356 along with Tata-VSNL for upstream. With Level3 transit BSNL has badly screwed up reverse path causing very high latency and awful bandwidth.

anurag@laptop:~$ ping server7 -c 5
PING server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247): icmp_req=1 ttl=52 time=320 ms
64 bytes from server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247): icmp_req=2 ttl=52 time=320 ms
64 bytes from server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247): icmp_req=3 ttl=52 time=319 ms
64 bytes from server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247): icmp_req=4 ttl=52 time=327 ms
64 bytes from server7.anuragbhatia.com (178.238.225.247): icmp_req=5 ttl=52 time=320 ms
--- server7.anuragbhatia.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 319.880/**321.765**/327.384/2.828 ms
anurag@laptop:~$

Expected latency values here should be around 150ms. A packet should not take more then 150ms round trip between Radaur, Haryana to Munich located server.