Pretty sure it’s a DDoS attack atm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
With regards to the Level3 routing I just did a few different map IP’s and am getting routed from Washington State (home) to California (Level3) to Texas (Servers) so at least on my end I’m not getting routed around the world…at least right now.
I was able to replicate the original posters results with 206.127.159.116. But I tried a few other IPs and was not routed across to Europe.