Oddities in a bad route announcement

M. David Leonard mdl at equinox.shaysnet.com
Sat May 29 13:35:09 UTC 1999


Sean-

	It looks OK from here right now:

traceroute to infoserver.fcc.gov (192.104.54.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  ShaysNet-gw.shaysnet.com (199.170.68.2)  3 ms  3 ms  3 ms
 2  Loopback0.GW2.BOS1.Alter.Net (137.39.2.208)  9 ms  9 ms  9 ms
 3  124.ATM2-0.XR1.BOS1.ALTER.NET (146.188.176.242)  8 ms  9 ms  8 ms
 4  291.ATM2-0.TR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.179.90)  14 ms  13 ms  14 ms
 5  104.ATM7-0.TR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET (146.188.138.117)  21 ms  20 ms  20 ms
 6  152.63.32.165 (152.63.32.165)  20 ms  19 ms  20 ms
 7  195.ATM9-0-0.GW2.DCA3.ALTER.NET (146.188.163.185)  21 ms  21 ms  24 ms
 8  fcc.gov-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.39.150)  21 ms  22 ms  22 ms
 9  infoserver.fcc.gov (192.104.54.3)  26 ms *  24 ms


	But (IIRC) Warwick Online hosed UUNet a few months back by 
injecting BGP bogons into their backbone.  It appeared to be a router 
misconfiguration at the time.  Maybe this was just another typo (JAT).  
Regards,

					David Leonard
					ShaysNet




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