said by timburke:The 'cbone' is Comcast's internal network. You'll hit that going to another Comcast customer, between Comcast POPs.
Tracing route to te-8-3-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.86.72.2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.20.15.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms ge-1-39-ur01.romeoville.il.chicago.comcast
.net [68.86.118.229]
4 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms te-8-2-ar02.elmhurst.il.chicago.comcast.ne
t [68.87.231.90]
5 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms te-2-1-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast
.net [68.87.230.121]
6 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms te-4-1-cr01.chicago.il.cbone.comcast
.net [68.86.72.33]
7 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms te-1-1-cr01.cleveland.oh.cbone.comca
st.net [68.86.68.21]
8 22 ms 30 ms 30 ms te-1-1-cr02.pittsburgh.pa.cbone.comc
ast.net [68.86.68.118]
9 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms te-2-1-cr01.mclean.va.cbone.comcast.
net [68.86.68.126]
10 50 ms 50 ms 48 ms te-8-3-ar01.capitolhghts.md.ba
d.comcast.net [68.86.72.2]
The 'ibone', however, is Comcast's bandwidth network. It also is what goes between POPs to get you to bandwidth providers/other peering partners.
Tracing route to softlayer.com [66.228.118.53]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms 3 ms 172.20.15.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 10 ms 8 ms 10 ms ge-1-39-ur01.romeoville.il.chicago.c
omcast.net [68.86.118.229]
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms te-8-2-ar02.elmhurst.il.chicag
o.comcast.net [68.87.231.90]
5 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms te-2-1-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast
.net [68.87.230.121]
6 16 ms 15 ms 13 ms 68.86.90.49
7 35 ms 41 ms 38 ms pos-0-0-0-0-cr01.indianapolis.in.ibo
ne.comcast.net [68.86.85.58]
8 49 ms 51 ms 48 ms pos-0-14-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.153]
9 42 ms 42 ms 50 ms te1-2.cer02.dal01.dallas-datac
enter.com [75.149.228.34]
10 50 ms 51 ms 51 ms po2.dar02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.co
m [66.228.118.207]
11 49 ms 49 ms 51 ms po2.slr01.dal01.softlayer.com
[66.228.118.142]
12 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms www.softlayer.com [66.228.118.53]
Hope that helped.
Tim
What you said doesn't even make sense
