India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[Anthony Atkielski]

Well, for what it's worth, I was doing some inverse traceroutes
yesterday, and it does appear that Indian ISPs take quite a tortuous
route from point to point. A traceroute from one Indian ISP (Net4India,
the only one I could even reach, which is already a bit worrisome) went
from India to Singapore to Tokyo to San Jose to New York to Paris, with
a cumulative delay of 418 ms. It actually nearly went around the world:

 1  gw-mum (202.71.136.62)  1.439 ms  0.658 ms  0.820 ms
 2  61.95.151.1 (61.95.151.1)  4.370 ms  2.937 ms  3.521 ms
 3  61.95.150.34 (61.95.150.34)  3.681 ms  7.069 ms  7.438 ms
 4  61.95.150.21 (61.95.150.21)  4.079 ms  6.854 ms  5.343 ms
 5  203.101.100.41 (203.101.100.41)  27.754 ms  26.166 ms  27.516 ms
 6  61.95.180.18 (61.95.180.18)  25.200 ms  24.482 ms  26.841 ms
 7  203.208.146.49 (203.208.146.49)  58.020 ms  58.099 ms  60.815 ms
 8  ge-3-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.157)  60.545 ms ge-2-0-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.165)  58.701 ms ge-3-0-0.sngc3-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.157)  58.281 ms
 9  p1-0.sngtp-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.129)  56.361 ms  92.429 ms p4-0.sngtp-cr3.ix.singtel.com (203.208.172.125)  60.439 ms
10  so-0-1-2.toknf-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.173.94)  151.952 ms 203.208.172.230 (203.208.172.230)  146.167 ms  219.727 ms
11  p1-0-0.toknf-cr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.173.21)  155.577 ms  147.855 ms  157.366 ms
12  P3-0.TKYBB1.Tokyo.opentransit.net (193.251.254.29)  157.024 ms  148.086 ms  153.658 ms
13  P1-2.SJOCR1.San-jose.opentransit.net (193.251.242.206)  246.231 ms  247.064 ms  257.645 ms
14  P14-0.NYKCR2.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.242.1)  330.534 ms  348.584 ms  344.785 ms
15  P1-0.AUVCR2.Aubervilliers.opentransit.net (193.251.241.137)  423.633 ms  422.628 ms  414.842 ms
16  pos9-0.nraub303.Aubervilliers.francetelecom.net (193.251.126.9)  415.860 ms  428.651 ms  417.621 ms
17  pos0-0-0-0.ncidf303.Aubervilliers.francetelecom.net (193.252.103.169)  425.146 ms  431.029 ms  423.044 ms
18  80.10.215.202 (80.10.215.202)  424.796 ms  417.172 ms  418.653 ms

A trace from Japan went through Dallas, Atlanta, and Oakhill, but I
guess that isn't too bad, although it's hardly a straight line.  A trace
from Russia was amazingly direct.  Spain reached my machine in just 39
ms, via London.  But the most impressive was CERN in Switzerland, which
reached my machine in eight hops and 8 ms.

This doesn't necessarily mean that Indian ISPs route domestic traffic
outside the country, but I noticed that happening for other countries
that should have better infrastructures, so certainly it would not
surprise me.

-- 
Anthony