Here’s packet loss to one of the Verizon DNS servers:
My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:58:53 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 10.7% 140 4.3 5.2 3.2 42.2 3.8 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net 8.6% 140 3.2 5.4 3.1 30.5 3.7 3. so-9-0-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 4.3% 140 5.9 11.3 3.2 89.0 14.6 4. so-7-1-0-0.PHIL-CORE-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 7.9% 140 3.7 5.8 3.0 42.8 5.8 5. ??? 6. nsphil01.verizon.net 7.2% 139 4.6 4.4 3.0 7.4 0.9
And to another:
My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 13:00:56 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 8.3% 12 5.4 5.0 4.0 7.4 1.0 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 12 6.4 4.6 3.2 6.4 1.1 3. so-3-1-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 9.1% 11 4.8 26.5 3.1 175.4 54.9 4. so-0-2-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 11 27.6 16.4 5.8 44.5 13.5 xe-0-1-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-1-8-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-0-4-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 5. so-7-2-0-0.NWRK-CORE-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 9.1% 11 8.2 9.7 6.7 14.2 2.0 6. nsnwrk01.verizon.net 9.1% 11 5.8 7.2 5.6 10.0 1.3