[as112-ops] AS112 timeout issues

[William F. Maton Sotomayor]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kim Davies wrote:

> 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'.

I keep thinking that I wrote up a technique in the draft ID to 
use the 'TXT' record so we can easily identify the true host's 
identity...I'll have to dig out my copy.  (no pun intended)

[snip]
> 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

Hop 9 seems to be a Qwest address, with origin AS 209, if the DNS and 
route-views are to be trusted.  We can probably infer that Qwest or a 
customer of theirs has one.

Anyone here from Qwest that can vouch for that box?

wfms