Traffic routing via USA

Scougar

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A friend just mentioned about China 'stealing' a third of the internet for a while (i.e. they routed it through themselves), and the USA being very worried etc. He then mentioned about how nearly all routes seem to go via the US even if for say co.uk addresses. Try it in a visual traceroute website to see what I mean.

Pretty bad really that the DNS server's believe it best to do a good few thousand miles just to get to overclockers.co.uk for example...


Not news to a lot of you, but even with me having done networking as my main topic at uni, I didn't know this.... (That's what I get for being a software developer now lol).
 
.co.uk doesn't mean the end server is hosted in the UK.

The routing to a website is controlled by the ISP, not by the DNS server.

Don't use DNS servers hosted in the US.
 
As mentioned above, a .co.uk is merely a domain name, you could have purchased your domain from someone like 123-reg.co.uk, but your hosting from an American hosting company with servers in the US.
 
It generally just means that the company owning the address is American or uses webhosts owned by American companies.
If you look at the latencies it's pretty clear if something is ACTUALLY being routed via the US, as it'll add at least 100ms to that hop.
 
Apparently he misquoted anyway.. it was 15% of the worlds traffic that got rerouted/hijacked by servers owned by China Telecom.
 
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