[as112-ops] AS112 timeout issues

[paul at vix.com]

http://public.as112.net/node/7

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> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:12:51 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca>
> To: as112-ops at lists.as112.net
> Subject: Re: [as112-ops] AS112 timeout issues
> Reply-To: wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca
> Sender: as112-ops-bounces at lists.as112.net
> 
> 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
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