A BGP issue?

Greg Ihnen os10rules at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 19:27:49 UTC 2011


I run a small network on a mission base in the Amazon jungle which is fed by a satellite internet connection. We had an outage from Feb 25th to the 28th where we had no connectivity with email, http/s, ftp, Skype would indicate it's connected but even chatting failed, basically everything stopped working except for ICMP. I could ping everywhere just fine. I started doing traceroutes and they all were very odd, all not reaching their destination and some hopping all over creation before dying. But if I did traceroute with ICMP it worked fine. Does this indicate our upstream (Bantel.net) had a BGP issue? Bantel blamed Hughesnet which is the service they resell. I'm wondering what kind of problem would let ping work fine but not any of the other protocols. It also seems odd that I could traceroute via UDP part way to a destination but then it would fail if the problem was my own provider. Thanks.

If this is the wrong forum for this post I'm sorry and please just hit delete. If this is the wrong forum but you'd be kind enough to share your expertise please reply off-list. Thanks!

 Here's some examples of the traceroutes I saved during the outage.

Using UDP:

Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ traceroute metaconi.com
traceroute to metaconi.com (70.32.39.205), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.7.1 (192.168.7.1)  1541.165 ms  25.665 ms  39.211 ms
 2  * * *
 3  192.168.14.254 (192.168.14.254)  625.710 ms  860.264 ms  694.238 ms
 4  192.168.180.5 (192.168.180.5)  645.666 ms  757.161 ms  664.785 ms
 5  10.254.253.158 (10.254.253.158)  738.661 ms  801.487 ms  728.139 ms
 6  fe11-0-5.miami1.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.77)  726.884 ms  733.989 ms  647.736 ms
 7  te3-4.miami7.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.97)  740.233 ms  694.619 ms  685.464 ms
 8  206.111.1.161.ptr.us.xo.net (206.111.1.161)  639.077 ms  741.495 ms  679.880 ms
 9  te-4-1-0.rar3.miami-fl.us.xo.net (207.88.12.161)  650.312 ms  612.386 ms  660.452 ms
10  te-3-2-0.rar3.atlanta-ga.us.xo.net (207.88.12.5)  787.079 ms  725.495 ms  685.068 ms
11  te-11-0-0.rar3.washington-dc.us.xo.net (207.88.12.10)  760.002 ms  828.076 ms  702.041 ms
12  ae0d0.mcr2.chicago-il.us.xo.net (216.156.0.166)  719.324 ms  641.274 ms  689.997 ms
13  ae1d0.mcr1.chicago-il.us.xo.net (216.156.1.81)  669.613 ms  813.794 ms  737.211 ms
14  edge1.chi1.ubiquityservers.com (216.55.8.30)  729.875 ms  751.481 ms  730.088 ms
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * *


Now here it is again doing traceroute via ICMP:

Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ traceroute -I metaconi.com
traceroute to metaconi.com (70.32.39.205), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  192.168.7.1 (192.168.7.1)  5.254 ms  3.059 ms  2.578 ms
 2  * * *
 3  192.168.14.254 (192.168.14.254)  1511.146 ms  711.304 ms  822.967 ms
 4  192.168.180.5 (192.168.180.5)  712.672 ms  821.990 ms  713.009 ms
 5  10.254.253.158 (10.254.253.158)  823.244 ms  711.764 ms  823.219 ms
 6  fe11-0-5.miami1.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.77)  712.640 ms  613.306 ms  614.429 ms
 7  te3-4.miami7.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.97)  823.232 ms  711.881 ms  823.166 ms
 8  206.111.1.161.ptr.us.xo.net (206.111.1.161)  712.765 ms  822.398 ms  712.531 ms
 9  te-4-1-0.rar3.miami-fl.us.xo.net (207.88.12.161)  822.809 ms  920.831 ms  712.399 ms
10  te-3-2-0.rar3.atlanta-ga.us.xo.net (207.88.12.5)  823.288 ms  711.478 ms  822.887 ms
11  te-11-0-0.rar3.washington-dc.us.xo.net (207.88.12.10)  712.705 ms  822.287 ms  712.713 ms
12  * ae0d0.mcr2.chicago-il.us.xo.net (216.156.0.166)  738.656 ms  919.752 ms
13  ae1d0.mcr1.chicago-il.us.xo.net (216.156.1.81)  921.381 ms  920.884 ms  1228.683 ms
14  edge1.chi1.ubiquityservers.com (216.55.8.30)  921.560 ms  920.482 ms  921.634 ms
15  relativity.mrk.com (70.32.39.205)  880.318 ms  753.150 ms  823.285 ms
Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ 

Here's an example of a UDP traceroute going all over creation:

Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ traceroute skype.com
traceroute to skype.com (78.141.177.7), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.7.1 (192.168.7.1)  18.939 ms  4.596 ms  27.124 ms
 2  * * *
 3  192.168.14.254 (192.168.14.254)  724.034 ms  704.520 ms  823.886 ms
 4  192.168.180.5 (192.168.180.5)  711.962 ms  704.606 ms  823.208 ms
 5  10.254.253.158 (10.254.253.158)  712.622 ms  912.870 ms  921.471 ms
 6  fe11-0-5.miami1.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.77)  712.642 ms  822.307 ms  712.720 ms
 7  * te9-1.ccr01.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.37)  3692.277 ms  702.345 ms
 8  te9-1.ccr01.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.37)  823.172 ms  920.050 ms  921.612 ms
 9  te8-2.ccr01.mia01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.245)  921.681 ms
    te8-7.ccr02.mia01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.185)  703.270 ms
    te8-2.ccr02.mia01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.153)  730.152 ms
10  te0-0-0-5.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.33)  797.769 ms
    te2-1.ccr02.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.25)  913.513 ms
    te0-1-0-4.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.161)  782.095 ms
11  te0-4-0-7.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.42.189)  814.870 ms
    te0-5-0-7.ccr22.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.42.201)  815.878 ms
    te0-2-0-3.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.9)  912.453 ms
12  te0-5-0-6.ccr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.42.30)  913.183 ms
    te0-2-0-2.ccr21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.186)  913.078 ms
    te0-4-0-7.ccr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.41.14)  913.268 ms
13  te2-8.ccr02.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.22)  833.515 ms
    te0-4-0-7.mpd22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.41.30)  702.568 ms
    te0-4-0-7.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.50)  815.549 ms
14  te0-3-0-2.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.14)  1010.769 ms
    te0-1-0-5.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.30)  913.070 ms
    te4-8.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.0.186)  913.076 ms
15  te7-3.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.130)  913.495 ms
    te4-4.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.134)  831.442 ms
    te1-1.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.162)  811.198 ms
16  te0-0-0-0.mpd21.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.5)  913.200 ms  912.636 ms
    te1-4.ccr01.bru01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.51.106)  921.496 ms
17  te0-0-0-0.mpd21.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.5)  913.344 ms  920.902 ms
    te1-4.ccr01.bru01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.51.106)  921.368 ms
18  149.6.134.86 (149.6.134.86)  920.406 ms  1014.226 ms *
19  213.166.61.194 (213.166.61.194)  959.442 ms  828.583 ms  920.909 ms
20  213.135.247.42 (213.135.247.42)  1019.971 ms
    78.141.177.7 (78.141.177.7)  988.848 ms
    213.135.247.42 (213.135.247.42)  1011.307 ms
Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ 

UDP traceroute worked to Google though I still couldn't load their pages

Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ traceroute google.com
traceroute to google.com (74.125.229.114), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.7.1 (192.168.7.1)  5.023 ms  3.971 ms  6.712 ms
 2  * * *
 3  192.168.14.254 (192.168.14.254)  1471.985 ms  643.770 ms  785.534 ms
 4  192.168.180.5 (192.168.180.5)  712.715 ms  704.409 ms  626.374 ms
 5  10.254.253.158 (10.254.253.158)  808.083 ms  647.244 ms  619.878 ms
 6  fe11-0-5.miami1.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.77)  776.534 ms  711.870 ms  640.372 ms
 7  * te7-1.miami7.mia.seabone.net (195.22.199.109)  810.819 ms  731.713 ms
 8  google.miami7.mia.seabone.net (89.221.41.18)  712.471 ms
    google.miami7.mia.seabone.net (89.221.41.74)  703.638 ms
    google.miami7.mia.seabone.net (89.221.41.18)  704.814 ms
 9  209.85.253.116 (209.85.253.116)  822.336 ms  761.621 ms
    209.85.253.74 (209.85.253.74)  709.705 ms
10  209.85.254.180 (209.85.254.180)  705.062 ms  702.723 ms  824.497 ms
11  74.125.229.114 (74.125.229.114)  712.196 ms  704.509 ms  596.077 ms
Gregs-MacBook-Pro:~ GregIhnen$ 






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