Sprint hosed...routing breakdown in Chicago

Mon Mar 26 22:12:37 UTC 2001

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 jlewis at lewis.org wrote:

> 
> Traceroutes to lots of destinations (MSN is the one we're getting the most
> complaints about) die like this.  I've got an open ticket with Sprint, but
> due to their support people playing telephone, the ticket description has
> degraded into meaningless garbage and I got a voice mail back from their
> NOC saying they don't understand what our problem is.  Meanwhile, I'm
> sitting here on permenant hold trying to get to talk to someone with a
> clue in their NOC.
> 
> traceroute to 206.253.194.65 (206.253.194.65), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  border1-fast0-0.Gainesville.atlantic.net (209.208.0.1)  2.237 ms  1.878 ms  1.109 ms
>  2  border1-s1-0-2-0.orldflwcom.atlantic.net (209.208.2.105)  22.004 ms orldflwcom-br-1-s1-0-5-0 (209.208.2.217)  20.816 ms border1-s1-0-2-0.orldflwcom.atlantic.net (209.208.2.105)  27.330 ms
>  3  sl-gw8-orl-3-0-TS11.sprintlink.net (144.232.154.21)  16.851 ms  31.717 ms  17.374 ms
>  4  sl-bb21-orl-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.233)  17.299 ms  15.614 ms  15.876 ms
>  5  144.232.18.201 (144.232.18.201)  38.620 ms  37.844 ms  30.519 ms
>  6  sl-bb20-atl-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.12.145)  30.850 ms  33.735 ms  23.784 ms
>  7  sl-bb20-atl-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.134)  41.988 ms  42.959 ms  38.364 ms
>  8  sl-bb22-chi-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.49)  38.592 ms  38.411 ms  39.822 ms
>  9  * * *
> 10  *Icmp checksum is wrong
>  *Icmp checksum is wrong
>  *
> 11  *
> 

#trace 206.253.194.65

 1 CORE-0-GE-3-1000M.CMH.ENTERZONE.NET (66.35.65.1)  0.951 ms 0.764 ms 0.889 ms
 2 64.241.88.6 (64.241.88.6) [6347] 15.473 ms 13.381 ms 12.532 ms
 3 atm8-0-093.CR-2.uschcg.savvis.net (64.241.88.65) [6347] 13.249 ms 15.587 ms 12.400 ms
 4 sl-gw22-chi-2-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.189.25) [1239] 23.474 ms 12.815 ms 12.612 ms
 5 sl-bb20-chi-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.10.9) [1239] 13.990 ms 14.433 ms 14.524 ms
 6 sl-bb22-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.6) [1239] 20.621 ms 13.381 ms 13.608 ms
 7 sl-bb10-sea-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.49) [1239] 51.725 ms 52.654 ms 51.802 ms
 8 sl-gw11-sea-7-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.6.126) [1239] 51.709 ms 51.658 ms 57.669 ms
 9 sl-internap-47-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.36.26) [1239] 68.388 ms 70.253 ms 69.370 ms
10 border22s.ge3-0-bbnet2.sea.pnap.net (206.253.192.223) [6993] 68.462 ms 70.246 ms 69.332 ms
11 ns1.pnap.net (206.253.194.65) [6993] 68.467 ms 69.205 ms 68.351 ms

It appears to work on our path.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc