Wierd Route

Mon Jan 22 08:52:18 UTC 2001

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jon Stanley wrote:

> The part that I was particularly concerned about was where it left qwest
> for BBNPlanet and got right back on Qwest.  I went ahead and gave them a
> call (at the number listed on Jared's page), and they asked for a
> traceroute, etc.  I gave them all the research that I had done and they
> just kinda fell silent when they saw my email to them.   Then they said
> "We'll have our NOC group take a look at this.".  I thought that I had
> called the NOC!!!!  Yet more examples of clueless morons manning the
> phones.  (Not saying that my employer is not guilty of the same :-( ),

The guilty party is AS3908, but the truely sad part is the lack of
filtering from their peers. Pass the pointy hat to bbn and c&w at a
minimium.

http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras/3908 by my count there are around 2500 routes,
most of them /24 or longer (count the /30s). And when you try to email
noc at sni.net...

... while talking to uswgne21.uswest.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<luis.ayala at qwest.com>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <luis.ayala at qwest.com>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 luis.ayala at qwest.com... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<daniel.dye at qwest.com>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <daniel.dye at qwest.com>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 daniel.dye at qwest.com... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<erik.hanhy at qwest.com>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <erik.hanhy at qwest.com>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 erik.hanhy at qwest.com... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<gregory.taylor at qwest.com>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <gregory.taylor at qwest.com>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 gregory.taylor at qwest.com  ... User unknown
... while talking to [199.117.162.13]:
>>> RCPT To:<millerc at medusa.csn.net>
<<< 550 <millerc at medusa.csn.net>... User unknown
550 millerc at medusa.csn.net... User unknown
550 troy at bobcat.sni.net... User unknown
550 <troy at bobcat.sni.net>... User unknown

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