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lukasc
join:2013-03-01
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lukasc

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Traffic goes through Hamilton and then back to Toronto?

I've noticed that whenever I am doing a traceroute, the traffic goes to Hamilton and then to Toronto even though I am between the two cities (Oakville) so I imagine this inflates latency a bit, so I was wondering if there was a DNS setting I could use so that the traffic goes directly to Bell's POP in Toronto?

Here's an example of a traceroute by the way:
1 mynetwork.home (192.168.2.1) 2.521 ms 2.028 ms 2.097 ms
2 10.11.1.105 (10.11.1.105) 32.258 ms 18.554 ms 14.070 ms
3 * 10.178.206.20 (10.178.206.20) 14.059 ms 13.178 ms
4 10.178.206.21 (10.178.206.21) 13.956 ms 15.576 ms 14.008 ms
5 tcore4-hamilton14_0-12-0-0.net.bell.ca (64.230.110.32) 17.428 ms 15.042 ms 15.212 ms
6 tcore4-toronto12_100ge1-13-0-0.net.bell.ca (64.230.73.216) 16.904 ms 15.945 ms 16.726 ms
7 tcore4-torontoxn_hundredgige0-5-0-0.net.bell.ca (64.230.50.13) 22.050 ms 18.857 ms 16.202 ms
8 bx1-torontoxn_et4-0-0.net.bell.ca (64.230.97.159) 14.336 ms 16.403 ms 14.076 ms
9 72.14.221.233 (72.14.221.233) 17.349 ms 21.997 ms 20.728 ms
10 216.239.47.114 (216.239.47.114) 20.742 ms 14.099 ms 13.148 ms

squircle
join:2009-06-23
OTWAON10

squircle

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The difference really is negligible (a few hundred µs at most), but no, there is nothing you can do. You cannot control your traffic in Bell's network (and no, it has nothing to do with DNS). This is as direct as you'll get; there is no problem here.