Anyone else having trouble reaching thepiratebay.se? AS39138

Thu Nov 27 19:06:52 UTC 2014

In the post you quoted it says:  

"In my last post I pointed out the do not announce to peers
community AS5580 was sending to Cogent, Level3 and who knows who else. So
any ASN that is not a customer of Cogent or Level3 wont learn the 5580 path
from them."

Verizon, ATT, and the rest of those networks are Tier-1 networks meaning 
if 5580 was tagging the route with do-not-advertise to their transit 
providers (Level3 & Cogent) the other Tier-1s wouldn't have another route 
to it.  Looking at routing updates there were a lot of them yesterday for 
that prefix, for whatever reason.  The lack of reachability was completely 
due to Atrato, had nothing to do with the ISPs in the US.  

It was reachable for me yesterday on our network, but we peer directly 
with Atrato.

It's possible they did it to stop a DDoS, some other kind of attack, or 
any number of reasons.  

Phil 

On 11/27/14, 2:47 PM, "Javier J" <javier at advancedmachines.us> wrote:

>Looks like its working now (on FIOS anyway)
>
>Curious to know why the major networks stopped seeing it yesterday as 
>well.
>
>On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Courtney Smith 
><courtneysmith at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> > No problem here in Los Angeles either, but seeing a lone route through
>> Atrato only.
>> >
>> > flags destination          gateway          lpref   med aspath origin
>> > *>    194.71.107.0/24      <>     100     0 3491 5580 39138 22351 
>>2.207
>> 51040 i
>> > *     194.71.107.0/24      <>       100     0 174 5580 39138 22351
>> 2.207 51040 i
>> >
>> >
>> > On 11/27/2014 午前 11:24, Tony Wicks wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No problem here in New Zealand
>> >>
>> >> tonyw at vrhost1-w> show route 194.71.107.0/24
>> >>
>> >> icore1-w.inet.0: 519451 destinations, 525214 routes (519437 active, 
>>14
>> >> holddown, 0 hidden)
>> >> + = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both
>> >>
>> >> 194.71.107.0/24    *[BGP/170] 10:25:44, MED 0, localpref 90
>> >>                        AS path: 4826 5580 39138 22351 131279 51040 I,
>> >> validation-state: unverified
>> >>                      > to 175.45.102.9 via ae1.526
>> >>
>>
>> Hopefully the body cones thru this time.  The issue isn't city or 
>>country
>> based.  In my last post I pointed out the do not announce to peers
>> community AS5580 was sending to Cogent, Level3 and who knows who else.  
>> So
>> any ASN that is not a customer of Cogent or Level3 wont learn the 5580 
>>path
>> from them.
>>
>> When I checked a few hours ago, Comcast, Centurylink, AT&T, TATA, and
>> possibly Sprint were not seeing the /24 based on their public looking
>> glasses or route servers.  Have not had time to run bgplay  to see if
>> routeviews data shows how they previously saw the /24 in past 30 days.
>> Finding the ASN(s) they used to see from would shed light on why they
>> stopped seeing.   Checking bgplay and contacting AS51040 to reach out to
>> their upstreams is my suggestion.