The following is a traceroute from Brazil to Costa Rica (www.conare.ac.cr) made on 6/23/07. The comments following the semi-colons (;) have been added based on where Geo IP Tool identifies the node to be. Note that hop 7 was identified by Geo IP Tool as being in Italy. Octant says it is in the Eastern US, see http://gattaca.cs.cornell.edu:8080/?url=195.22.199.101. IP2Location says it's in Albania (see http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx). GeoIP at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip, says its in Rome, Italy at 41.9N and 12.4832E, though it does say the Organization that owns the host is "TI Sparkle Seabone Miami POP". AntiOnline at http://antionline.com/tools-and-toys/ip-locate/index.php?address=195.22.199.101 locates it in Albania. Hostip.info at http://www.hostip.info/index.html correctly locates it in Miami Florida, US. 1 200.143.197.129 (200.143.197.129) 0.956 ms 0.765 ms 0.747 ms; Brazil 2 ge-1-0-0-r1-rj.bkb.rnp.br (200.143.252.181) 0.650 ms 0.595 ms 0.580 ms; Brazil 3 so-0-1-0-r1-sp.bkb.rnp.br (200.143.252.21) 6.197 ms 6.184 ms 6.217 ms; Brazil 4 rnp-whren-stm.ampath.net (198.32.252.221) 180.753 ms 144.255 ms 143.030 ms; USA 5 juniper-to-i2.ampath.net (198.32.252.194) 228.359 ms 228.416 ms 238.498 ms; USA 6 juni2.ampath.net (198.32.252.23) 223.687 ms 223.306 ms 223.659 ms; USA 7 mia2-fiu-1-us.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.101) 221.955 ms 219.414 ms 219.560 ms; Italy 8 * * * 9 POS1-0.IG2.MIA4.ALTER.NET (157.130.75.33) 148.390 ms 147.942 ms 148.073 ms; USA 10 63.65.189.142 (63.65.189.142) 237.895 ms 175.972 ms 177.173 ms; USA 11 200.91.107.218 (200.91.107.218) 175.960 ms 176.189 ms 176.524 ms; Costa Rica