Plane crash in Queens

Mon Nov 12 15:53:08 UTC 2001

On 10:33 AM 11/12/2001 -0500, clarke wrote:
 >
 >The crash was in the portion of Queens knows as the Rockaways. The entire
 >city is shut down. All tunnels and bridges and air space over NYC is closed.

 From a "network operations" viewpoint, it appears that yet again all paths 
to www.cnn.com are overloaded.  Can you reach www.cnn.com from your network?

Tracing route to www.cnn.com [207.25.71.27]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1    10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  10.8.58.254
   2    20 ms    20 ms    20 ms  adsl-208-201-241-1.sonic.net [208.201.241.1]
   3    20 ms    30 ms    20 ms  gamma.sonic.net [208.201.224.4]
   4    30 ms    21 ms    20 ms  aar2-serial5-1-0-0.SanFranciscosfd.cw.net 
[206.2
4.221.217]
   5    40 ms    30 ms    30 ms  acr2-loopback.SanFranciscosfd.cw.net 
[206.24.210
.62]
   6    90 ms   100 ms   100 ms  acr1-loopback.Atlantaald.cw.net 
[208.172.66.61]

   7   100 ms   101 ms    90 ms  bpr1-loopback.AtlantaPaix.cw.net 
[208.172.66.28]

   8    90 ms   100 ms    90 ms  america-on-line.AtlantaPaix.cw.net 
[208.173.59.2
2]
   9   110 ms    90 ms   100 ms  bb1-atm-P0-0.atdn.net [64.236.4.113]
  10   101 ms    90 ms    90 ms  pop1-atl-p5-0.atdn.net [66.185.136.22]
  11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  12    90 ms    90 ms   101 ms  172.23.45.1
  13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  15  ^C
C:\>

bash-2.04$ traceroute www.cnn.com
traceroute to cnn.com (207.25.71.27), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  gateway.sanmateo.ca.us.ultradns.net (216.15.7.193)  0.901 ms  0.877 
ms  0.829 ms
  2  208.214.137.117 (208.214.137.117)  5.511 ms  5.639 ms  5.328 ms
  3  527.at-5-0-0.XR3.SCL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.166)  5.697 ms  5.528 
ms  5.599 ms
  4  0.so-1-0-0.XL1.SCL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.55.81)  6.085 ms  6.724 ms  5.666 ms
  5  0.so-3-0-0.TL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.53.250)  8.468 ms  8.686 
ms  8.626 ms
  6  0.so-4-0-0.TL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.98)  75.928 ms  77.753 
ms  76.026 ms
  7  0.so-7-0-0.XL1.ATL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.86.97)  76.005 ms  76.082 
ms  76.384 ms
  8  0.so-7-0-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.86.86)  84.009 ms  76.299 
ms  76.582 ms
  9  195.ATM7-0.GW10.ATL3.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.17)  79.978 ms  90.762 
ms  76.597 ms
10  * * *
11  *^C

FROM net.yahoo.com TO www.cnn.com.

traceroute to cnn.com (64.12.50.249), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  v998-snv-io-rtr2.corp.yahoo.com (216.145.48.3)  0.236 ms  0.184 
ms  0.174 ms
  2  ge-0-2-0.pat2.pao.yahoo.com (216.115.100.101)  1.552 ms  1.518 
ms  1.516 ms
  3  if-5-0.core1.PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net (207.45.196.89)  1.453 ms  1.458 
ms  1.440 ms
  4  if-3-0.core1.Sacramento.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.202)  74.502 
ms  74.519 ms  74.542 ms
  5  if-3-0.core3.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.198)  74.483 ms  74.444 
ms  74.477 ms
  6  if-3-0.core1.Washington.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.162)  74.380 
ms  74.335 ms  74.304 ms
  7  ix-9-3.core1.Washington.Teleglobe.net (207.45.213.170)  74.366 
ms  74.458 ms  74.699 ms
  8  bb2-dcl-P6-2.atdn.net (204.148.97.137)  74.370 ms  74.394 ms  74.369 ms
  9  bb2-rtc-P0-3.atdn.net (204.148.99.230)  79.580 ms  79.628 ms  79.643 ms
10  bb2-mtc-P8-0.atdn.net (204.148.99.154)  80.261 ms  80.134 ms  80.196 ms
11  pop1-mtc-P15-0.atdn.net (204.148.101.210)  80.294 ms  80.212 ms  80.640 ms
12  ptne1-mc1-P0-0.atdn.net (204.148.102.194)  80.333 ms  80.299 ms  80.315 ms
13  ptni6-mc2-P0-0.ptn.aol.com (64.12.32.90)  80.238 ms  80.231 ms  80.227 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *

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