Second day of rolling blackouts starts

Fri Jan 19 03:53:37 UTC 2001

I'm betting on it being blackout related:

Starts getting ugly between Dallas and LA and just goes down hill from
there:

  9 dfw3-core4-pos7-0.atlas.icix.net (165.117.48.134) [AS 2548] 36 msec 36 msec 36 msec
 10 lax2-core2-pos7-0.atlas.icix.net (165.117.48.42) [AS 2548] 68 msec 64 msec 68 msec

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> 
> Is your network multicast enabled ? My traceroute to you shows 
> that you home to AS 2548, which is.
> 
> If so, this might be connected to the RAMEN worm. This is hosing up
> native multicast
> but good, so much so that it is affecting routers and causing some
> unicast problems. I heard, for
> example, that it is causing 4% packet loss at the Abilene NOC. RAMEN is
> (for the multicast enabled
> part of the Internet) effectively a DOS attack.
> 
> Regards
> Marshall Eubanks  
> 
> James Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > I have noticed east coast routers/providers are getting
> > beat up fairly rough. I am having hard times getting my
> > clients in Europe to see me here in San Diego.  Level3
> > and PSInet are taking a beating hard.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Sean Donelan
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:22 PM
> > To: sjsobol at NorthShoreTechnologies.net
> > Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
> > 
> > On Thu, 18 January 2001, "Steven J. Sobol" wrote:
> > > Is anyone seeing lots of routing oddities? I'm not able to get to a lot
> > > of sites that I normally can, that are hosted in different places; and I'm
> > > wondering if some providers are routing around California outages.
> > 
> > Not that I know of.  There is something squirrely going on with the
> > root name servers, but I haven't figured it out if it is just my location
> > or more widespread.
> 
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