Does the route to Netflix servers pass through Comcast for everyone?

I’m in St. Louis and use Charter for my internet. Just for kicks, I ran “tracert netflix.com” at a Windows command prompt and it seems that from here to Illinois, its all charter hops, but through IL, NY, and VA, the hops are various comcast.net domains.

I do realize that netflix.com likely isnt the domain of the servers actually doing the streaming, but this is still very interesting to me.

1     2 ms     2 ms     4 ms  DD-WRT [192.168.0.1]
2    12 ms    15 ms    13 ms  10.163.128.1
3    22 ms    19 ms    43 ms  96-34-52-84.static.unas.mo.charter.com [96.34.52
.84]
4    11 ms    14 ms    12 ms  bbr01olvemo-tge-0-1-0-2.olve.mo.charter.com [96.
34.2.86]
5    20 ms    19 ms    17 ms  bbr02chcgil-tge-0-1-0-4.chcg.il.charter.com [96.
34.0.65]
6    22 ms    27 ms    22 ms  prr01chcgil-tge-2-1.chcg.il.charter.com [96.34.3
.11]
7    78 ms    81 ms    72 ms  be-10-805-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [
75.149.231.205]
8    19 ms    19 ms    21 ms  pos-1-8-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.87.129]
9    88 ms    76 ms    64 ms  pos-2-12-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [
68.86.87.21]
10    52 ms    56 ms    56 ms  pos-0-12-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [
68.86.85.29]
11    69 ms    54 ms    52 ms  pos-0-2-0-0-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.86.70]
12    51 ms    54 ms    58 ms  66.208.228.10
13    54 ms    67 ms    51 ms  xe-1-1-0.jnrt-edge01.iad1.netflix.com [69.53.244
.253]
14   116 ms   106 ms   107 ms  xe-0-0-0-100.jnrt-edge01.sv1.netflix.com [69.53.
230.213]
15   125 ms   109 ms   120 ms  te1-7.csrt-agg01.dc2.prod.netflix.com [69.53.230
.230]
16   103 ms   102 ms   112 ms  www.dc2.netflix.com [208.75.79.17]

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  1. 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
    2 6 ms 5 ms 6 ms 10.163.128.1
    3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 96-34-52-86.static.unas.mo.charter.com [96.34.52
    .86]
    4 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 96-34-48-28.static.unas.mo.charter.com [96.34.48
    .28]
    5 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms bbr01olvemo-tge-0-1-0-2.olve.mo.charter.com [96.
    34.2.86]
    6 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms bbr02chcgil-tge-0-1-0-4.chcg.il.charter.com [96.
    34.0.65]
    7 16 ms 17 ms 17 ms prr01chcgil-tge-4-2.chcg.il.charter.com [96.34.3
    .46]
    8 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms be-10-805-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [
    75.149.231.205]
    9 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [6
    8.86.87.165]
    10 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms pos-2-8-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [6
    8.86.86.105]
    11 48 ms 46 ms 48 ms pos-0-13-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [
    68.86.85.97]
    12 50 ms 49 ms 50 ms pos-0-2-0-0-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
    8.86.86.70]
    13 47 ms 46 ms 47 ms 66.208.228.10
    14 49 ms 50 ms 50 ms xe-1-1-0.jnrt-edge01.iad1.netflix.com [69.53.244
    .253]
    15 98 ms 99 ms 99 ms xe-0-0-0-100.jnrt-edge01.sv1.netflix.com [69.53.
    230.213]
    16 108 ms 106 ms 107 ms xe-2-2-0-954.jnrt-edge01.prod1.netflix.com [69.5
    3.225.26]
    17 108 ms 107 ms 107 ms te1-8.csrt-agg01.prod1.netflix.com [69.53.225.6]

    18 107 ms 106 ms 107 ms http://www.dc1.netflix.com [208.75.76.17]

    Trace complete.

    interesting, i am also using charter and from the st louis area

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