From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 15 15:24:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.converging.net (edtn002029.hs.telusplanet.net [161.184.135.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28C21503A for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) Received: from spot (proxy.converging.net [161.184.135.250]) by brutus.converging.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00761 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:37:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) From: Damien Tougas Reply-To: To: Subject: Routing question... Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:25:35 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have been experiencing some problems with our server, and we suspect it might be due to routing issues within our ISPs network. When we did a traceroute from our server, this is what we got: traceroute to freefall.freebsd.org (204.216.27.21), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.128.4.13 (10.128.4.13) 12.350 ms 79.670 ms 12.336 ms 2 10.128.3.2 (10.128.3.2) 12.904 ms 12.847 ms 12.983 ms 3 tac02-enet0.rtr.agt.net (161.184.255.225) 13.098 ms 13.684 ms 13.814 ms 4 local1-atm0-0-111.tac.net (207.229.15.25) 18.424 ms 17.902 ms 17.792 ms 5 REGIONAL1-fe2-1-0.tac.net (205.233.111.39) 17.904 ms 21.189 ms 19.104 ms ...etc... as you will notice, our provider is using non-routable addresses (as seen in hop 1 and 2), and then they are using another wierd one (161.184.255.255) in hop 3 before it gets back out in to real world addresses. I don't understand everything about internet addressing, but is what they are doing a valid scheme, or is it looking for disaster? Any thoughts (and if you could point me to an RFC) on this would be appreciated. Thanks. Damien Tougas Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. 10148 - 73 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6A 2W9 Phone: (780) 469-1679 Fax: (780) 461-5127 mailto:dtougas@converging.net http://www.converging.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message