Re: mail-abuse.org down?

["Marshall Eubanks" <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:17:46 -0400 (EDT)
 Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 jlewis () lewis org wrote:
> > I did some more looking last night, and it seems it's not down, it's just
> > unreachable from my network.  Even stranger, it's only unreachable from
> > Atlantic.Net's primary ARIN block of 209.208.0.0/17.  Traceroutes die at
> > so-1-1-0.mpr1.sql1.us.mfnx.net (209.249.203.58).
>
> It may not be related, but there have been several strange route
> inconsistencies wondering around the network yesterday and today
> affecting a variety of sites for a few hours at a time.  Even stranger
> it seems to only be affecting routes in parts of the net, so the
> site is sometimes reachable from one place but not another. One person
> monitoring BGP picked up lots of inconsistent routes from his peers last
> night, but they've cleared up now.  Either there is a odd bug in vendor's


Define "lots". I see about 500 inconsistent routes in BGP, have seen them 
since last June (when I started looking), made inquiries, and was told that this
was due to policies at exchange points. (I.e., it's not a bug, it's a feature.)

Regards
Marshall Eubanks
> routing software, a network engineer has goofed, or someone is playing
> games.