Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Basil Kruglov wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:42AM -0500,  
> CARL.P.HIRSCH () sargentlundy com wrote:
> > Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated  
> > message
> > reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but  
> > they also
> > seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint.
> >
> >   2 g1-0.core01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.6.73) [AS 174] 0  
> > msec 0
> > msec 0 msec
> >   3 t4-1.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.98) [AS 174] 4  
> > msec 0
> > msec 0 msec
> >   4 v3488.mpd01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.26) [AS 174] 0  
> > msec 0
> > msec 0msec
> >   5 g6-0-0-3492.core01.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.241) [AS  
> > 174] 0
> > msec 0 msec 0 msec
> >   6 sprint.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.46) [AS 174] 0 msec  
> > 4 msec
> > 0 msec
> >   7 sl-bb20-chi-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.218) [AS 174] 0 msec  
> > 0 msec
> > 0 msec
> >   8 sl-bb21-chi-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.2) [AS 174] 4 msec  
> > 4 msec
> > 0 msec
> >   9 sl-bb25-chi-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.90) [AS 174] 0  
> > msec 0 msec
> > 0 msec
> >  10  *  *  *
> >  11  *  *  *
> >  12  *  *  *
> >  13  *  *  *
> >  14  *  *
>
> We're actually seeing the same isses @ NTT/AS2914 peering with
> Sprint/AS1239:
>
> traceroute to www.sprint.net (199.0.234.48), 64 hops max, 40 byte  
> packets
>  1  10.30.1.1 (10.30.1.1)  0.504 ms  0.221 ms  0.234 ms
>  2  ge-2-2-0.r00.chcgil08.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.208.1)  0.298  
> ms  0.290
> ms  0.284 ms
>  3  p16-0-2-3.r21.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.17)  0.469  
> ms  0.474
> ms  0.452 ms
>  4  ae-0.r20.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.97)  0.423 ms   
> 0.421 ms
> 0.418 ms
>  5  sl-st21-chi-14-1-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.221)  0.408 ms   
> 0.439 ms
> 0.414 ms
>  6  sl-crs2-chi-0-0-0-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.9)  1.661 ms   
> 1.521 ms
> 1.407 ms
>  7  sl-bb25-chi-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.113)  1.264 ms   
> 1.212 ms
> 1.075 ms
>  8  * * *
> ^C

I can't ping www.sprint.net, but I can reach their name servers just  
fine through Cogent and Cox, and
I can get to www.sprint.net on the web. I am not really sure that  
there is a problem as I can
also get to http://www.duke-energy.com/ over the web from both Cogent  
and Cox.

Regards
Marshall


From Cogent :

multicasttech-1>trace  ns1-auth.sprintlink.net
Translating "ns1-auth.sprintlink.net"...domain server (63.105.122.7)  
[OK]

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to ns1-auth.sprintlink.net (206.228.179.10)

  1 g0-7.na21.b002176-1.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.206.153) 0  
msec 0 msec 0 msec
  2 g2-1-3587.core01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.32.13) [AS 174]  
4 msec 0 msec 0 msec
  3 t3-1.ccr02.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.158) [AS 174] 0  
msec 0 msec 0 msec
  4 t4-1.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.182) [AS 174] 4  
msec 0 msec 0 msec
  5 t2-2.mpd01.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.78) [AS 174] 0  
msec 0 msec 4 msec
  6 g14-0-0.core01.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.57) [AS 174] 0  
msec 4 msec 0 msec
  7 sprint.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.62) [AS 174] 4 msec 0  
msec 4 msec
  8 sl-bb20-dc-8-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.120) [AS 1239] 4 msec  
0 msec 0 msec
  9 sl-crs2-dc-0-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.15.19) [AS 1239] 4  
msec 4 msec 4 msec
10 sl-bb21-nsh-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.184) [AS 1239] 20  
msec 24 msec 20 msec
11 sl-bb27-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.64) [AS 1239] 44 msec 48  
msec 44 msec
12 sl-bb20-fw-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.11.13) [AS 1239] 48 msec  
44 msec 44 msec
13 sl-s1-fw-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.136) [AS 1239] 44 msec 48  
msec 44 msec
14 ns1-auth.sprintlink.net (206.228.179.10) [AS 1239] 40 msec 40 msec  
36 msec



> -Basil @ CIFNet