[as112-ops] AS112 timeout issues

[kevin brintnall]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:01:01AM -0700, Kim Davies wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> IANA has been receiving a number of reports in the last couple of days
> from people receiving timeouts sending DNS queries to the blackhole
> servers. ICMP traffic to the host seems to work fine though.
> 
> As they don't respond with answers, the identity of the host(s) can't be
> readily determined using 'hostname.as112.net'.
> 
> One reporter has provided a traceroute that ends:
> 
> 8 67.14.21.33 (67.14.21.33) 64.675 ms 64.720 ms 64.626 ms
> 9 207.225.159.211 (207.225.159.211) 66.394 ms 66.538 ms 66.430 ms
> 10 blackhole-1.iana.org (192.175.48.6) 63.252 ms 63.226 ms 63.082 ms
> 
> I couldn't immediately find a correlation between 207.225.159.211 and
> the list of networks at http://public.as112.net/node/10
> 
> Any assistance or pointers in tracking down this problem would be
> appreciated.

Kim,

I am responsible for this node (as112.qwest.net).

Our named failed, and the route wasn't properly withdrawn.  I'm checking
into it.

Apologies to all.

-- 
 kevin brintnall
 Network Engineer, Qwest Internet Services
 email: kbrint at qwest.net