mail-abuse.org down?

Sun Jun 9 04:46:59 UTC 2002

On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 12:06 , John Payne wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:06:04AM -0400, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday morning, I noticed mail-abuse.org appeared to be down
>> (unreachable). I checked again, and it's still unreachable.  In fact, I
>> can't even reach its name server.
>>
>> I did some more looking last night, and it seems it's not down, it's 
>> just
>> unreachable from my network.  Even stranger, it's only unreachable from
>> Atlantic.Net's primary ARIN block of 209.208.0.0/17.  Traceroutes die 
>> at
>> so-1-1-0.mpr1.sql1.us.mfnx.net (209.249.203.58).
>
> MFN have a history of dropping in blackholes for unsolicited relay 
> tests...
> are you sure your njabl experiment hasn't pissed off someone at MFN 
> enough
> to drop you in?

traceroute to 209.208.0.0 (209.208.0.0), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  999.ge1-0.er1a.iad2.us.mfnx.net (208.185.51.2)  0.257 ms  0.177 ms  
0.142 ms
  2  pos8-0.mpr2.iad2.us.mfnx.net (208.185.0.13)  0.256 ms  0.182 ms  
0.167 ms
  3  so-2-1-0.cr2.iad1.us.mfnx.net (209.249.0.133)  0.515 ms  0.532 ms  
0.516 ms
  4  so-2-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.mfnx.net (208.184.233.66)  4.711 ms  4.697 ms  
4.699 ms
  5  so-2-1-0.cr2.ord2.us.mfnx.net (208.185.156.157)  25.015 ms  25.012 
ms  25.015 ms
  6  pos1-0.pr1.ord2.us.mfnx.net (208.185.0.194)  24.919 ms  24.891 ms  
24.882 ms
  7  uunet-abovenet-oc12.ord2.above.net (208.184.231.50)  26.255 ms  
26.290 ms  26.220 ms
  8  0.so-5-3-0.XL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.178)  26.573 ms  26.562 ms  
26.594 ms
  9  0.so-1-0-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.67.121)  26.614 ms  26.539 ms  
26.570 ms
10  0.so-3-0-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.101.50)  41.368 ms  41.412 ms  
41.447 ms
11  0.so-7-0-0.CL2.ORL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.86.165)  53.946 ms  53.962 ms  
54.038 ms
12  194.ATM7-0.GW7.ORL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.221)  54.343 ms  54.545 ms  
54.220 ms
13  atlanticnet-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.65.130)  231.598 ms  
68.260 ms  44.103 ms
14  gsvlflma-br-1-s4-0.atlantic.net (209.208.90.30)  49.813 ms  49.180 
ms  49.879 ms
15  gsvlfl-br-1-s2-0.atlantic.net (209.208.6.126)  50.244 ms  49.778 ms  
49.695 ms
16  *^C

Guess not.