Weird traceroute

[rabahnouri]

I was doing a trace route from my machine to a particular website through windows xp, and I noticed some private IP addresses showing up in the trace, so I am just wondering why would 10.*.*.* ip address show up on the internet, I have never seen that before.

[bvsnarayana03]

Probably you didnt exit your own network. Can u post the trace report.

[Richard Burts]

It is also possible that he went through some providers network where router interfaces as you transit the AS are configured with 10.*.*.* addresses.

HTH

Rick

[rabahnouri]

but why would you choose a private ip address for a router interface?

[rabahnouri]

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.30.1

2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.30.1

3 57 ms 55 ms 56 ms 83.121.129.1 (Modified for protection)

4 60 ms 61 ms 60 ms 10.100.0.133

5 56 ms * * 10.16.150.1

6 74 ms 75 ms 76 ms pal6-eepad-1-dz.pal.seabone.net [195.22.197.25]

7 114 ms 114 ms 111 ms pal8-pal6-racc1.pal.seabone.net [195.22.218.210]

8 * * 124 ms mil50-pal8-racc3.mil.seabone.net [195.22.196.108]

9 136 ms 135 ms 134 ms fra50-mil50-racc1.fra.seabone.net [195.22.211.98]

10 133 ms 133 ms 133 ms fra7-fra50-racc1.fra.seabone.net [195.22.211.219]

11 127 ms 129 ms 131 ms teleglobe-1-ca-fra7.fra.seabone.net [89.221.34.30]

12 131 ms 130 ms 130 ms if-11-0-0.core1.PV1-Paris.teleglobe.net [80.231.65.66]

13 127 ms 129 ms 131 ms if-14-0-0.core3.PG1-Paris.teleglobe.net [80.231.73.5]

14 139 ms 142 ms 141 ms if-9-2.har1.PG1-Paris.teleglobe.net [80.231.72.46]

15 291 ms 203 ms 209 ms ix-10-5.har1.PG1-Paris.teleglobe.net [195.219.198.30]

16 150 ms 146 ms 147 ms te2-1-91-nb-voltaire-2.nerim.net [194.79.131.142]

17 147 ms 147 ms 142 ms vl2-swr301-mix-voltaire.nerim.net [62.4.16.17]

18 134 ms 129 ms 128 ms gi50-lgw101-hst-voltaire.nerim.net [194.79.130.66]

19 123 ms 126 ms 130 ms network.ippi.fr [195.5.254.146]

20 * * * Request timed out.

21 * * * Request timed out.

22 * * * Request timed out.

23 * * * Request timed out.

24 * * * Request timed out.

25 * * * Request timed out.

26 * * * Request timed out.

27 * * * Request timed out.

28 * * * Request timed out.

29 * * * Request timed out.

30 * * * Request timed out.

these two private addresses 10.100.0.133, 10.16.150.1 are showing up after the public ip address.

Thanks

[patrickvanham]

It looks like the 10.x.x.x addresses are from your ISP. Many ISP's use the 10.0.0.0 /8 range internally and for management purposes, and as long as it isn't advertised outside their own network there's no problem. If you do a trace towards yourself from a looking glaas those hops should show up with time-outs.

It's not neat to do it this way, as customers cannot use the private IP space those routers are in, but if it is a consumer ISP rather than a business ISP it rearely causes problems as most consumers use the 192.168.x.x private ranges.