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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:06:28 -0700 (MST)
From:      Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CRL <--> MCI at pacbell NAP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970216195910.1548B-100000@darkstar>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970216192438.6083C-100000@alive.znep.com>

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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> Part of a traceroute to wcarchive:
> 
>  9  pacbell-nap-atm.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.1.202)  48.998 ms  50.476 ms  49.367 ms
> 10  pacbell-nap-atm.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.1.202)  53.675 ms  47.162 ms  61.408 ms
> 11  pb-nap.crl.net (198.32.128.20)  1513.402 ms * *
> 12  * wcarchive.cdrom.com (165.113.58.253)  483.625 ms *
> 
> Not so hot; can't get more than 1 kbyte/sec from wcarchive when normally
> I can get over 200.  <sigh>
> 
> Anyone have any idea whose fault it is (looks like CRL to me, but could
> be something else at the NAP) and when it will be fixed?  Guess I could
> manually route around it but that's annoying.

Very interesting.  The networking expert I know says this can result from 
a router advertising an incorrect "cost" number.  If this parameter, 
whatever it is, is set incorrectly, a huge amount of traffic can be drawn 
into a small pipe.  Generally speaking you hear phrases like, "it was 
real bad, we very quickly fixed the problem".

Another possibility is that a major link is down and they are going
through a T1 backup path.  It is also apparently pretty easy to mess up
BGP configuration. 

In any event, you might want to send some e-mail the backbone provider(s).
Often noc@.... works prety well. (noc = network operations center).  A 
whois may also give some e-mail addresses.

Charles Mott



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