Bad Internet routing (old bogon list?)

Net Llama! netllama
Wed Nov 2 12:02:30 PST 2005


This kinda smells like the peering mess that was going on for the past few
weeks, but i thought that it had been resolved.

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, David Bandel wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've been plagued with a random, but recurring problem:
>
> An IP suddenly cannot browse about 1/3 of the Internet.  Watching
> traffic via tcpdump reveals the following:
> 64.116.183.62.1147 -> 203.115.195.216.80 S .....
> 64.255.255.0.80 -> 64.116.183.62.1147 S ... ACK
> 64.116.183.62.1147 -> 64.116.183.80 R
>
> As you can see, something is intercepting the transmission (yes, the
> sequence numbers match, 64.255.255.0, which doesn't exist, is
> hijacking the connection).
>
> This has now cost me some customers.  I need a way to track this down.
>  I put 64.116.183.61 on my system and have a traceroute, but
> 64.255.255.0 isn't being returned to me, only 64.116.183.62.
>
> And this only happens sometimes to some IPs, but not always.
> Frustrating.  just had a big customer get another connection, and
> after seeing this only happened with their connection to me (the other
> connection with the other provider worked fine) they cancelled my
> service.
>
> Anyone have any clues how to track this down?
>
> TIA,
>
> David A. Bandel
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