RR Routing Loop?

Fri Jan 2 23:21:06 UTC 2009

So my night was fun: I was in the middle of configuring a mail server
over SSH when suddenly it goes unresponsive...

It seems (to me, but I'm by no means an expert) to be a routing loop.
This is off a residential line in Southern California, between about
2-4:30am PST.  Does anyone know what was going on there?

 1  cpe-75-82-48-1.socal.res.rr.com (75.82.48.1)  23.890 ms  11.594 ms
 10.598 ms
 2  gig11-35.vnnyca2-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.5.141)  12.732 ms
11.605 ms  10.378 ms
 3  * * *
 4  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  28.318 ms  30.164
ms  25.177 ms
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  43.524 ms  43.117
ms  42.888 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  60.265 ms  59.196
ms  59.076 ms
11  * * *
12  * * *
[snip]
28  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  150.724 ms  154.224 ms *
29  prt23.vnnyca2-rtr1.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.11)  154.232 ms * *
[snip]
56  * * *
57  * * *
58  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  173.394 ms  173.101
ms  168.737 ms
59  * * *
60  * * *
61  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  178.986 ms  178.072 ms *
62  * * *
63  * * *
64  prt24.lsanca3-rtr2.socal.rr.com (76.167.2.14)  189.424 ms  188.331
ms  196.333 ms