This morning, I was briefly waylaid by a colleague who wanted me to look at a traceroute for her. Her question: “Is it safe to say that alter.net is not Verizon?”

Answer: Nope.

Alter.net begat UU.net begat MCI/Worldcom begat MCI begat Verizon.

And so goes the world…

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