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BSNL - Softlayer connectivity problem & possible fix

It’s late night here in India. I am having final 8th semester exams and as usual really bored! 

Though this time we have interesting subjects but still syllabus is pretty boring spreading across multiple books, notes and pdf’s. Anyways I will be out of college after June which sounds good.

Tonight, I found a routing glitch. Yes a routing glitch!! :)

These issues somehow keep my life in orbit and give a good understanding on how routing works over the Internet.

BSNL-Softlayer issue

Seems like BSNL-NIB (AS9829) routing with Softlayer’s Singapore datacenter (AS36351) is messed up. Example route between BSNL consumer connection (from Haryana, India) to Softlayer hosted site dot19.com

1 router2 (192.168.1.100) [AS8151/AS28513] 3.136 ms 3.874 ms 4.675 ms
2 117.200.48.1 (117.200.48.1) [AS9829] 29.088 ms 32.395 ms 35.773 ms
3 218.248.173.42 (218.248.173.42) [AS9829] 42.411 ms 44.746 ms 47.176 ms
4 218.248.255.70 (218.248.255.70) [AS9829] 92.977 ms 95.322 ms 97.758 ms
5 64.213.76.69 (64.213.76.69) [AS3043] 323.921 ms 324.594 ms 327.478 ms
6 ix-20-0.tcore2.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net (209.58.53.9) [AS6453] 333.339 ms 302.673 ms 303.992 ms
7 if-8-2-1-0.tcore1.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net (64.86.252.114) [AS6453] 419.641 ms 423.086 ms 424.411 ms
8 if-2-2.tcore2.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net (66.198.127.2) [AS6453] 425.475 ms 426.956 ms 430.239 ms
9 if-9-2.tcore1.TV2-Tokyo.as6453.net (180.87.180.18) [*] 436.026 ms 433.594 ms 434.911 ms
10 180.87.180.50 (180.87.180.50) [*] 439.543 ms 438.330 ms 441.001 ms
11 ae7.bbr01.eq01.tok01.networklayer.com (50.97.18.162) [AS36351] 471.290 ms 446.401 ms 472.233 ms
12 ae1.bbr01.eq01.sng02.networklayer.com (50.97.18.165) [AS36351] 477.914 ms 480.721 ms 485.605 ms
13 ae5.dar01.sr03.sng01.networklayer.com (50.97.18.197) [AS36351] 499.273 ms 502.262 ms 501.499 ms
14 po1.fcr01.sr03.sng01.networklayer.com (174.133.118.131) [AS36351] 489.251 ms po2.fcr01.sr03.sng01.networklayer.com (174.133.118.133) [AS36351] 496.491 ms 497.322 ms
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Messed up routing tables of BSNL or lack of co-ordination between Tata Comm & Softlayer?