Lemme throw my traceroute into this, to see if anything else can be checked into, starting at the NTT nodes:


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Tracing route to 204.2.229.9 over a maximum of 30 hops

9 101 ms 56 ms 45 ms ae-5.a00.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8.237]
10 66 ms 55 ms 46 ms ae-2.r21.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.19]
11 111 ms 68 ms 84 ms ae-2.r25.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.154]
12 95 ms * 82 ms ae-5.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.146]
13 93 ms * 105 ms ae-4.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
14 95 ms 88 ms 97 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [192.80.16.2]
15 * * 87 ms 204.2.229.230
16 * 125 ms 148 ms 204.2.229.9

Trace complete.

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