AOL’s BYOB uses a tunnel/vpn approach. I wonder where Google could have ever gotten the idea… but the effect is clear:
Off VPN:
$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.161.104
traceroute to www.l.google.com (64.233.161.104), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.984 ms 1.131 ms 1.058 ms
2 10.47.64.1 (10.47.64.1) 6.472 ms 6.259 ms 7.544 ms
3 srp2-0.rlghncg-rtr2.nc.rr.com (24.25.1.100) 8.038 ms 7.542 ms 8.898 ms
4 srp4-0.rlghnca-rtr2.nc.rr.com (24.25.2.146) 8.908 ms 6.702 ms 7.779 ms
5 pos14-0.rlghncrdc-rtr2.nc.rr.com (24.25.0.9) 9.198 ms 10.628 ms 7.281 ms
6 son0-1-1.chrlncsa-rtr6.carolina.rr.com (24.93.64.57) 12.840 ms 12.603 ms 17.141 ms
7 pop1-cha-p1-0.atdn.net (66.185.132.33) 14.996 ms 14.086 ms 13.759 ms
8 bb1-cha-p3-0.atdn.net (66.185.138.64) 17.630 ms 21.680 ms 24.468 ms
9 bb1-atm-p6-0.atdn.net (66.185.152.182) 31.240 ms 21.882 ms 20.845 ms
10 pop2-atm-p0-0.atdn.net (66.185.147.209) 22.502 ms 16.917 ms 17.948 ms
11 google.atdn.net (66.185.147.218) 33.378 ms 53.538 ms 29.753 ms
12 216.239.46.153 (216.239.46.153) 28.788 ms 28.043 ms 216.239.46.157 (216.239.46.157) 30.002 ms
13 66.249.95.125 (66.249.95.125) 30.233 ms 66.249.95.124 (66.249.95.124) 29.099 ms 29.570 ms
14 66.249.95.123 (66.249.95.123) 30.721 ms 29.857 ms 64.233.175.98 (64.233.175.98) 43.885 ms
15 66.249.95.121 (66.249.95.121) 40.912 ms 66.249.95.123 (66.249.95.123) 30.047 ms 29.376 ms
16 216.239.47.156 (216.239.47.156) 37.886 ms 29.755 ms 216.239.48.198 (216.239.48.198) 36.433 ms
17 64.233.161.104 (64.233.161.104) 28.817 ms 30.344 ms 46.271 ms
On VPN:
$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 66.102.7.99
traceroute to www.l.google.com (66.102.7.99), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 66.28.250.161 (66.28.250.161) 102.057 ms 99.255 ms 99.763 ms
3 g1-8.core01.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.8.233) 100.255 ms 101.846 ms 100.429 ms
4 p15-0.core02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.70) 101.085 ms 99.884 ms 99.678 ms
5 p10-0.core01.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.133) 101.786 ms 102.198 ms 101.599 ms
6 google.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.254) 102.646 ms 102.553 ms 101.197 ms
7 66.249.94.2 (66.249.94.2) 175.315 ms 176.190 ms 180.260 ms
8 64.233.174.54 (64.233.174.54) 177.706 ms 176.194 ms 66.249.94.29 (66.249.94.29) 176.665 ms
9 216.239.49.142 (216.239.49.142) 176.362 ms 177.084 ms 216.239.49.146 (216.239.49.146) 176.446 ms
10 66.102.7.99 (66.102.7.99) 175.962 ms 177.078 ms 175.809 ms
