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Bouncing around the country
This is cute. A traceroute from my home in North Canton, OH, to the funknet.net server somewhere in the vicinity of Columbus, OH, appears to take the following route geographically:
North Canton -> Cincinnati -> New York -> Chicago -> Columbus
The total is 16 hops.
But hey, that's better than the route to a friend's server in nearby Akron; that one goes through Cinci, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, and back to Chicago before heading back to the vicinity of Cleveland. 22 hops.
Lesson: Real geography has very little to do with net-nearness.
Speaking of geography and the net, I have to admit that after moving to NE Ohio it took quite a while before I could see signs for Ohio Route 21 without thinking of FTP (possibly because I was doing firewall work when I moved up here). And I still can't see the signs for North Royalton without thinking of all the traceroutes I've seen go through there; I'm not yet convinced that anything exists in North Royalton besides a backbone router.
North Canton -> Cincinnati -> New York -> Chicago -> Columbus
The total is 16 hops.
But hey, that's better than the route to a friend's server in nearby Akron; that one goes through Cinci, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, and back to Chicago before heading back to the vicinity of Cleveland. 22 hops.
Lesson: Real geography has very little to do with net-nearness.
Speaking of geography and the net, I have to admit that after moving to NE Ohio it took quite a while before I could see signs for Ohio Route 21 without thinking of FTP (possibly because I was doing firewall work when I moved up here). And I still can't see the signs for North Royalton without thinking of all the traceroutes I've seen go through there; I'm not yet convinced that anything exists in North Royalton besides a backbone router.