Their provider has peering issues, or simply got turned off and their provider isn't null-routing their smaller block.

On 01/15/2014 01:02 PM, ChasM wrote:
traceroute to 82.94.226.104 (82.94.226.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  0.511 ms  0.220 ms  0.130 ms
Probably your gateway/router.  192.168.0.1 is default.
 2  *  *  *
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Weird your provider is filtering icmp, or you are.  Maybe they do is they don't want someone topology mapping satellites per the government.  Five hops to get to their internet provider for bgp handoff from your uplink gateway.
 6  xe-11-3-2.edge3.Denver1.Level3.net (4.31.10.21)  573.083 ms  600.139 ms  610.012 ms
 7  vlan51.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.147.94)  623.971 ms  636.495 ms  639.317 ms
 8  ae-3-3.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.57)  641.511 ms  637.943 ms  640.662 ms
 9  ae-82-82.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.26)  640.213 ms  ae-92-92.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.30)  658.787 ms  636.883 ms
10  ae-1-60.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.69.152.16)  637.633 ms  ae-2-70.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.69.152.80)  638.802 ms  640.916 ms
11  KPN.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.53.208.18)  641.029 ms  638.968 ms  1401.923 ms
Your provider peers with Level 3 from denver land gateway, to san jose, paying them for internet transit.  They respond outside the satellite network to the traceroute as a provider should.  They pass you off to the next bgp autonomous system in path.
12  chg-s1-rou-1041.US.eurorings.net (134.222.232.65)  758.628 ms  759.915 ms  758.051 ms
13  asd2-rou-1022.NL.eurorings.net (134.222.233.20)  760.562 ms  759.132 ms  760.946 ms
14  asd2-rou-1044.NL.eurorings.net (134.222.230.226)  767.319 ms  751.061 ms  759.146 ms
L3 hands off from san jose to chicago, and launches to netherlands within this eurorings.net next in the as-path.
15  134.222.97.18 (134.222.97.18)  760.857 ms  728.594 ms  759.813 ms
Probably a mutual peering switch at the euro data center.
16  te5-4.swcolo1.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.12.2)  763.195 ms  756.420 ms  763.124 ms
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this xs4all.net is still advertising the route, but there's a loop in routing (conflicting routes) internally where they hand off to a customer (old customer?):

 show ip bgp  82.94.226.104 
 BGP routing table entry for 82.92.0.0/14, version 123161444
 * * *  Advertised to update-groups:
      59       
 * * *  Refresh Epoch 1
 * * *  2828 6939 3265, (received & used)

... so they take your request within the /14 aggregate that route that falls in, but no one home at that more specific route/ip address, and the trace bounce until ttl's expire @ 30 as a precaution against bad network administration like that (this is what sinkhole routing to null0 is for).

FWIW, I get the same from cox here to that IP, but that IP isn't what blender.net resolves to:

mb@host:~$ ping blender.net
PING blender.net (208.113.154.63) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from apache2-cabo.caroline.dreamhost.com (208.113.154.63): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=77.1 ms
^C
--- blender.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 77.102/77.364/77.627/0.382 ms

mb@host:~$ nslookup 82.94.226.104
Server:        127.0.1.1
Address:    127.0.1.1#53

** server can't find 104.226.94.82.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN

What is this ip?  Do you have cached indefinite dns or something for it as blender.net?  What does it resolve to for you?

-mb