Title: So I&#x27;m currently in Shanghai and tried to ping 1.1.1.1, and surprisingly I got a response!<p>* 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=3.46 ms<p>* I get a 19ms response from my 4G mobile network<p>* I get no response from a server in Hong Kong.<p>I looked it up and apparently it&#x27;s a APNIC research prefix, so I decided to do a traceroute and got this:<p>traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  gateway (172.20.0.1)  0.370 ms  0.204 ms  0.443 ms
 2  27.115.97.209 (27.115.97.209)  1.166 ms  1.157 ms  1.150 ms
 3  112.64.249.197 (112.64.249.197)  3.351 ms  3.350 ms  3.343 ms
 4  58.247.223.18 (58.247.223.18)  4.203 ms  4.204 ms  4.197 ms
 5  1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1)  5.927 ms  5.926 ms  5.919 ms<p>My question is why on earth have they routed 1.1.1.1? If I go to 1.1.1.2 it goes beyond the city and fails somewhere upstream.
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