So pings from Bangalore to Mumbai are going through the US. Wow.
Code:
$ date; traceroute ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net.Sat May 19 04:01:12 IST 2012traceroute to ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net. (180.87.38.5), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 117.205.xxx.1 (117.205.xxx.1) 6.427 ms 8.074 ms 10.022 ms 2 218.248.175.246 (218.248.175.246) 15.949 ms 17.864 ms 20.293 ms 3 if-11-1-1.mcore3.LAA-LosAngeles.as6453.net (209.58.85.5) 268.408 ms 270.864 ms 272.818 ms 4 if-10-2-0-14.tcore2.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net (216.6.84.6) 313.430 ms 315.158 ms 316.782 ms 5 if-7-2.tcore2.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net (180.87.15.25) 318.833 ms 320.807 ms 316.103 ms 6 ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5) 318.950 ms 327.324 ms 335.153 ms$ ping ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net.PING ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5): icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=289 ms64 bytes from ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5): icmp_req=2 ttl=56 time=304 ms64 bytes from ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5): icmp_req=3 ttl=56 time=292 ms64 bytes from ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net (180.87.38.5): icmp_req=4 ttl=56 time=356 ms^C--- ix-0-100.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net ping statistics ---4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003msrtt min/avg/max/mdev = 289.575/310.792/356.721/27.079 ms