Weird routing (Sydney -> Tokyo -> Sydney)

[Daniel15]

I have a server in Sydney Australia and am using the Tunnelbroker Sydney endpoint. When I traceroute -6 google.com, it appears to be going to Tokyo then back to Australia  :o

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traceroute to google.com (2404:6800:4006:807::200e), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1  tunnel532650.tunnel.tserv1.syd1.ipv6.he.net (2001:470:1f2c:228::1)  0.973 ms  1.421 ms  1.984 ms
2  10ge2-5.core1.syd1.he.net (2001:470:0:27b::1)  2.169 ms  2.142 ms  2.124 ms
3  10ge1-1.core1.tyo1.he.net (2001:470:0:46c::1)  119.181 ms  119.206 ms  119.195 ms
4  2001:de8:8::1:5169:2 (2001:de8:8::1:5169:2)  118.909 ms 2001:7fa:7:1:0:1:5169:2 (2001:7fa:7:1:0:1:5169:2)  115.093 ms 2001:7fa:7:1:0:1:5169:1 (2001:7fa:7:1:0:1:5169:1)  115.427 ms
5  2001:4860:0:1003::11 (2001:4860:0:1003::11)  115.695 ms 2001:4860:0:1002::11 (2001:4860:0:1002::11)  115.689 ms 2001:4860:0:1000::10 (2001:4860:0:1000::10)  121.842 ms
6  2001:4860::c:4001:389 (2001:4860::c:4001:389)  115.920 ms  114.022 ms  114.050 ms
7  2001:4860::c:4000:e102 (2001:4860::c:4000:e102)  250.506 ms 2001:4860::c:4001:35e (2001:4860::c:4001:35e)  116.792 ms 2001:4860::c:4001:35d (2001:4860::c:4001:35d)  249.566 ms
8  2001:4860::1:0:ca67 (2001:4860::1:0:ca67)  249.848 ms  249.875 ms  249.800 ms
9  2001:4860:0:1107::1 (2001:4860:0:1107::1)  250.863 ms 2001:4860:0:1::3ff (2001:4860:0:1::3ff)  252.546 ms 2001:4860:0:1::443 (2001:4860:0:1::443)  249.234 ms
10  2001:4860:0:1::443 (2001:4860:0:1::443)  249.273 ms  249.238 ms  249.203 ms
11  syd09s13-in-x0e.1e100.net (2404:6800:4006:807::200e)  248.755 ms  249.538 ms  252.903 ms


[Daniel15]

Another case of weird routing: traceroute to ftp.au.debian.org goes to San Jose then back to Sydney:

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traceroute to ftp.au.debian.org (2001:388:1034:2900::25), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1  tunnel532650.tunnel.tserv1.syd1.ipv6.he.net (2001:470:1f2c:228::1)  0.989 ms  1.384 ms  1.703 ms
2  10ge2-5.core1.syd1.he.net (2001:470:0:27b::1)  1.856 ms  1.829 ms  1.818 ms
3  10ge3-5.core1.sjc1.he.net (2001:470:0:311::1)  147.611 ms  147.591 ms  147.623 ms
4  10ge14-4.core1.pao1.he.net (2001:470:0:54::2)  148.045 ms  148.026 ms  148.135 ms
5  xe-0-0-0.bb1.a.pao.aarnet.net.au (2001:504:d::b1)  152.528 ms  152.496 ms  152.462 ms
6  2001:388:1:14::1 (2001:388:1:14::1)  152.371 ms  151.325 ms  151.279 ms
7  et-3-1-0.pe1.brwy.nsw.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:bc:5::1)  151.345 ms  151.318 ms  151.288 ms
8  et-1-1-0.pe1.rsby.nsw.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:66::1)  151.323 ms  151.586 ms  151.526 ms
9  et-0-3-0.pe1.actn.act.aarnet.net.au (2001:388:1:65::2)  155.173 ms  155.149 ms  155.117 ms
10  2001:388:cf0a:11::2 (2001:388:cf0a:11::2)  183.617 ms  183.572 ms  183.530 ms
11  2001:388:1034:a::2 (2001:388:1034:a::2)  155.354 ms  155.449 ms  155.619 ms
12  2001:388:1034:c::1 (2001:388:1034:c::1)  156.129 ms  156.005 ms  156.044 ms
13  2001:388:1034:2900::25 (2001:388:1034:2900::25)  156.297 ms  156.270 ms  156.294 ms