Any ideas what is happening to Alternet's backbone?

Mon Jun 16 21:10:24 UTC 1997

> Anyone have any info on Alternet's outage?  We have had to shutdown several
> interfaces to Alternet routers in the Washington DC area as they appear to have been
> blackholing our packets.  Calls to their NOC have not been able to gather
> any further information.

nope, although i see that uunet (among others) are still reachable via psi :-(

peer1.sjc1#sh ip bgp re 174_2713_5727
BGP table version is 5259866, local router ID is 207.240.24.10
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

   Network          Next Hop          Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*  4.0.0.0          198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 1 i
*  12.64.0.0/12     198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 5074 i
*  36.0.0.0         198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 1 32 i
*> 62.0.0.0         198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 1 
1239 568 400 ?
*> 62.72.0.0/18     198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 701 
3491 5427 i
*  62.192.0.0/19    198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 701 
3491 6705 i
*  62.216.0.0/19    198.32.136.23         10     80      0 174 2713 5727 701 
4000 5583 i

etc...  

i've asked psi to correct the problem...

-danny