Take your left hand, pull it back around your head, wrap it around to your right side and touch your nose.
That's how the Malaysian internet infrastructure works. Roughly.
Dinesh posted on this recently. That traceroute does look da** familiar.
A while back, we looked at how to make certain local corporate online services more 'efficient'. Short of butchering the code of some pre-built portal products, other choices that needed to be made seemed logical - sourcing the best internet service provider. We asked around other large companies and found that the ones with the best response times hosted their sites in Hong Kong, the US, basically anywhere else but Malaysia.
The answer was unacceptable and test after test was conducted. The most disappointing moment was on a Tuesday morning, a little before lunch time, we dialled into TMNet to access our dummy site in Jaring and we got a 404 error. A traceroute yielded something like what Dinesh has on his site, only that the packet was dropped somewhere in LA while trying to get from a direct dial-up connection in Brickfields to a site only a couple of physical kilometers away.
Funny how we consistently got through using our lame free TimeNet account - 9 hops, via Singapore and back into Malaysia.
Yes, some things don't make sense...
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Posted by Najah Nasseri at 2003年10月06日 12:18 | TrackBack