MIA: oregon-ix.net

Wed Nov 20 20:13:17 UTC 2002

cowie at renesys.com wrote:
> 
> > As some of you have noticed, the BGP4 route containing the address for
> > route-views.oregon-ix.net has disappeared a while ago (mid-October?).
> > Their website seems to be gone, and I swear, I couldn't resolve
> > the domain for a little while just now. Has the Oregon IX been shut down?
> 
> As others have noted, they just had DNS problems.  Their routes appear to
> be live.  In fact, the stability of 198.32.162.0/24 is pretty good, by
> and large.
> 
> They did have one global outage of about an hour and a half
> on October 1st, starting at 12:03 GMT.   Also, back on September
> 13th, between 12:32 and 13:51 GMT they were (accidentally or deliberately)
> being originated by 15919 (Interhost),  creating a brief blackhole
> situation.  They're otherwise usually advertised by 3701, although you'll
> also see Verio originating them depending on where you look.

And 5650 if you are a customer...

> 
> > Their route-server was probably the best-connected one, with the most
> > views, of any public route server I am aware of (please prove me wrong,
> > but do not torment me with any web-based looking glasses :) .
> 
> Yeah, for real forensics, neither looking glasses nor public route
> servers are ideal solutions.   The former have single-site myopia and
> the latter have no good tools.   That's why we built our own
> infrastructure (http://gradus.renesys.com).
> 
> > Nothing like having to poke around 10 other RS's to establish that
> > rogue AS 26212 really only has 1, 6402 and 2914 as their upstreams.
> 
> Also 2516, 3257, 4513, 6730, and 6939, just in the last few weeks.  --jim