Fri Dec 27 06:40:00 CET 2024

Finland has activated Far North Fiber (see https://farnorthfiber.com).  Given the hypothesis that light travels
at 200,000 km/s through a medium of glass (which causes dampening/slowing of light).  Then these figures would
make sense in an assymetric route go through Ireland, Iceland, Finland and back via the C-LION fibre.

(a ping from Germany, 2 ms east of Frankfurt DE-CIX)
PING fin.delphinusdns.org (2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=0 hlim=50 time=41.931 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=1 hlim=50 time=38.301 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=2 hlim=50 time=38.222 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=3 hlim=50 time=38.362 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=4 hlim=50 time=38.262 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=5 hlim=50 time=38.413 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=6 hlim=50 time=38.290 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=7 hlim=50 time=38.187 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=8 hlim=50 time=38.427 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:4f9:c010:ae71::1: icmp_seq=9 hlim=50 time=38.119 ms

--- fin.delphinusdns.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 38.119/38.651/41.931/1.097 ms

The path for the full route then is:  IRIS, Far North Fiber, C-Lion.  Unfortunately a traceroute will not
tell details due to MPLS tunneling.  It's kinda neat that my packets are traversing through Iceland to get
to Finland (roar!  Vikings!)

PS: Lately there have been many fibre cuts in the Finland region.  An indicator of political conflicts in
the region.

-pjp