Sprint (1239) blackhole ? Or bogus /32 route ?

Thu Sep 26 17:35:37 UTC 2002

At 01:31 PM 26/09/2002 -0400, Vinny Abello wrote:
>Looks like something isn't right... I see the announcement from Sprint 
>with an AS path of 1239 852 11647, but it never gets past one of the 
>routers on Sprint's network. I have no problem going through Cable and 
>Wireless:

Yes, and the strange thing is that is just one IP address :-( 
199.212.134.9... If you try 199.212.134.1 I bet you can get to it via sprint.

>Type escape sequence to abort.
>Tracing the route to smtp2.sentex.ca (199.212.134.9)
>
>   1 63-121-101-106.focaldata.net (63.121.101.106) [AS 18984] 0 msec 0 
> msec 0 msec
>   2 acr2-so-3-3-0.newyork.cw.net (206.24.193.153) [AS 3561] 0 msec 4 msec 
> 0 msec
>   3 agr4-loopback.newyork.cw.net (206.24.194.104) [AS 3561] 4 msec 0 msec
>     agr3-loopback.newyork.cw.net (206.24.194.103) [AS 3561] 4 msec
>   4 dcr1-so-7-2-0.newyork.cw.net (206.24.207.73) [AS 3561] 4 msec
>     dcr1-so-6-2-0.newyork.cw.net (206.24.207.57) [AS 3561] 0 msec
>     dcr1-so-7-3-0.newyork.cw.net (206.24.207.77) [AS 3561] 4 msec
>   5 telus-services-inc.newyork.cw.net (206.24.207.90) [AS 3561] 24 msec 
> 24 msec 20 msec
>   6 toroonnlbr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.11.130) [AS 852] 20 msec 24 msec 20 
> msec
>   7 toroonzddr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.6.67) [AS 852] 24 msec 24 msec 20 msec
>   8 peer.toroonzddr00.bb.telus.com (209.115.141.5) [AS 852] 28 msec 28 
> msec 32 msec
>   9 iolite.sentex.ca (209.112.4.3) [AS 15290] 24 msec 24 msec 24 msec
>  10 smtp2.sentex.ca (199.212.134.9) [AS 11647] 28 msec 24 msec 32 msec
>
>I would contact Sprint. Good luck!

Thanks, I did.  Responder robot said they would try to get back to me in 
72hrs :-(

         ---Mike