AT&T Southwest → Strange traceroute...to Facebook via China?

Check this out...I'm not sure, but it looks like a trace from my home AT&T DSL takes me through China to get to FaceBook.

C:\Users\Chris>tracert -d www.facebook.com
 
Tracing route to www.facebook.com [69.171.224.39]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    41 ms    51 ms    41 ms  70.130.143.xxx
  3    41 ms    41 ms    41 ms  151.164.14.131
  4    41 ms    41 ms    41 ms  151.164.102.106
  5    89 ms    89 ms   151 ms  12.123.30.133
  6    90 ms    90 ms    90 ms  218.30.54.169
  7    91 ms    90 ms    90 ms  202.97.50.37
  8    97 ms   113 ms    97 ms  202.97.49.206
  9    96 ms    97 ms    97 ms  202.97.49.202
 10     *      205 ms   220 ms  218.30.54.78
 11     *      224 ms     *     198.32.176.71
 12   223 ms   227 ms     *     74.119.77.128
 13     *      248 ms     *     204.15.20.51
 14     *      245 ms     *     74.119.79.101
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16   251 ms     *        *     69.171.224.39
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *      248 ms     *     69.171.224.39
 19     *      247 ms   245 ms  69.171.224.39
 
Trace complete.
 
C:\Users\Chris>
 

Can anybody here weigh in on this?

which IP do you figure is China ?

The IP's from 218.30.54.169 through 218.30.54.78 belong to ChinaNet according to a whois query, don't they? (hops 6 - 10).

Yes..
la2ca02jt.ip.att.net [12.123.30.133] in Morristown, New Jersey
12.123.30.0 through 12.123.30.255

Put you on to that hop..it did not help much in your access to facebook that route is always slow...if you try it again do you get the same route or was that a one off thing?

There is a worm out there in the family of Net Worm.Win32.Allaple.gen that is associated with this range of IP's

218.30.54.169
202.97.50.xx
202.97.49.xxx
202.97.49.xxx
218.30.54.xx
Are you concerned you might be infected.

The route changes periodically. I am certain there's no infections here on my end. It takes the same path with my iPad as well. Probably an AT&T problem?

Yup...Verizon had some problems like that last year I was reading about going through level3 stuff in china-telcom sanjose

»www.colocationprovider.o ··· tion.htm

Found the article I remember reading last year about this same time frame.

YouTube, Facebook and Twitter "redirected to China"

By Barry Collins
Posted on 26 Mar 2010 at 09:10

Visitors to some of the world's most popular websites - including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter - were reportedly redirected to servers in China this week.

One of the internet's main DNS root servers was reportedly rerouting traffic via China, giving visitors to those sites first-hand experience of what life is like behind the country's firewall. Sites such as Facebook and YouTube are banned in China, which has infamously strict web censorship rules.

The "hijacked" visitors were either sent to Chinese equivalents of the sites, or shown error messages claiming the sites were unavailable, according to a report on CNet.com.

read more here...

»www.pcpro.co.uk/news/sec ··· to-china

It finally hit the news again today

US Facebook data passed through Chinese, South Korean ISPs
By Emil Protalinski | March 26, 2011, 4:24pm PDT

»www.zdnet.com/blog/faceb ··· isps/970