Below is traceroute from Brazil to a host (www.unerg.edu.ve aka 63.246.132.10) apparently in Venezuela (according to Geo IP Tools). It was run on 6/23/06. Each hop is anotated with the apparent location according to Geo IP Tools and Hostip.info. Not only does Hostip.info get the location of hop 7 correctly (in the US) while Geo IP Tools says it in Italy, but Hostip.info also spots that hop 11 is not in Venezuela. Separately Geo IP Tools says 63.246.132.10 is in Venezuela while Geo IP Tools says Venezuela. traceroute to 63.246.132.10 (63.246.132.10), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets GeoIPTool, HostIP.info 1 200.143.197.129 (200.143.197.129) 0.884 ms 0.797 ms 0.757 ms Brazil , Brazil 2 ge-1-0-0-r1-rj.bkb.rnp.br (200.143.252.181) 0.877 ms 0.660 ms 0.567 ms Brazil , Brazil 3 so-0-1-0-r1-sp.bkb.rnp.br (200.143.252.21) 6.204 ms 6.182 ms 16.310 ms Brazil , Brazil 4 rnp-whren-stm.ampath.net (198.32.252.221) 142.899 ms 142.934 ms 142.910 ms United States , Mexico 5 juniper-to-i2.ampath.net (198.32.252.194) 235.374 ms 234.854 ms 236.957 ms United States , Mexico 6 juni2.ampath.net (198.32.252.23) 238.381 ms 236.049 ms 234.959 ms United States , Mexico 7 mia2-fiu-1-us.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.101) 233.482 ms 235.062 ms 233.018 ms Italy , United States 8 64.208.110.213 (64.208.110.213) 301.912 ms 235.931 ms 236.269 ms United States , United States 9 Lightspeed-IP-Inc-Triple-8-Tampa.ge-2-1-0.402.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net (64.208.17.94) 239.803 ms 225.903 ms 226.033 ms United States , United States 10 gi0-2.ds05.tpa.sagonet.net (65.110.32.75) 240.130 ms 226.404 ms unused.backbone.tpa.sagonet.net (65.110.32.15) 226.355 ms United States , United States 11 tepuy1.dattacapanaparo.com (63.246.132.10) 228.201 ms 229.724 ms 230.191 ms Venezuela , United States