Anycast provider for SMTP?

Wed Jun 17 02:12:58 UTC 2015

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Joe Hamelin <joe at nethead.com> wrote:
> It seems to be more of a last-mile backhoe fade issue right now.  I'm
> trying to convince them that a manufacturing facility isn't a good place
> for a data center.

Backhoes seem to have gotten you for a day or so now. My mail to you
is deferred on my server and:

nslookup -q=mx nethead.com
Server:         192.168.99.1
Address:        192.168.99.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
nethead.com     mail exchanger = 10 tulalip.us.
nethead.com     mail exchanger = 0 hamelin.us.

telnet hamelin.us. 25
Trying 208.71.161.175...
Connection failed: No route to host

traceroute -T -p 25 hamelin.us.
traceroute to hamelin.us. (208.71.161.175), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  lo0-100.WASHDC-VFTTP-312.verizon-gni.net (71.246.241.1)  1.091 ms
1.127 ms  1.442 ms
 2  T1-3-0-4.WASHDC-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net (130.81.221.218)  3.869 ms
T2-9-0-13.WASHDC-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net (100.41.137.158)  5.005 ms
T2-9-0-13.WASHDC-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (100.41.137.88)  5.651 ms
 3  * * *
 4  0.ae3.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET (140.222.227.195)  6.399 ms  6.578 ms  6.668 ms
 5  204.255.168.226 (204.255.168.226)  5.324 ms  5.744 ms  6.168 ms
 6  207.88.14.162.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.14.162)  79.304 ms  74.726 ms  75.877 ms
 7  vb6.rar3.chicago-il.us.xo.net (207.88.12.33)  72.258 ms  75.141 ms
 72.125 ms
 8  te-4-1-0.rar3.denver-co.us.xo.net (207.88.12.22)  74.619 ms
74.544 ms  74.475 ms
 9  te-3-0-0.rar3.seattle-wa.us.xo.net (207.88.12.81)  78.125 ms
78.264 ms  77.969 ms
10  ae0d0.cir1.seattle7-wa.us.xo.net (207.88.13.141)  74.881 ms
76.052 ms  76.469 ms
11  216.156.100.146.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.100.146)  89.162 ms  88.563
ms  89.005 ms
12  cr2-sea-b-te-0-0-0-9.bb.spectrumnet.us (174.127.140.158)  85.827
ms cr2-sea-b-te-0-0-0-8.bb.spectrumnet.us (174.127.140.154)  86.021 ms
 85.414 ms
13  cr1-bds-te-0-0-0-1.bb.spectrumnet.us (174.127.138.123)  88.308 ms
cr1-bds-te-0-0-0-3.bb.spectrumnet.us (174.127.138.127)  86.834 ms
cr1-bds-te-0-0-0-1.bb.spectrumnet.us (174.127.138.123)  87.826 ms
14  TulalipTribes-1000M-BDS.demarc.spectrumnet.us (216.243.26.98)
88.101 ms  87.321 ms  88.475 ms
15  * 208.83.58.225 (208.83.58.225)  88.298 ms  88.084 ms
16  74.112.52.200 (74.112.52.200)  87.485 ms  86.812 ms  86.365 ms
17  host-208-71-161-250.tulalipbroadband.com (208.71.161.250)  86.317
ms  86.103 ms  86.366 ms
18  host-208-71-161-175.tulalip.us (208.71.161.175)  108.818 ms
108.118 ms  107.581 ms
19  host-208-71-161-175.tulalip.us (208.71.161.175)  2605.488 ms !H
2617.132 ms !H *

-Bill

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William Herrin ................ herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us
Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>