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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 1996 08:01:04 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price), hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: can't get to freefall.FreeBSD.org 
Message-ID:  <199609041501.IAA01087@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:32:51 CDT." <199609041432.JAA05229@right.PCS> 

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>> I know this is not freefall's fault nor does it have anything to
>> do with FreeBSD except this blooming router is the reason why I
>> can't get to freefall.  I was just wondering if anybody knew of
>> anybody that has anything to do with it.  Of course, this message
>> will take forever to get posted since this same router has to be
>> used and it can't figure out how to route packets to anything
>> other than itself right now. :(
>> 
>> Name:    sl-fw-8-S2/7-T1.sprintlink.net
>> Address:  144.228.38.65
>
>Sprintlink is basically your problem.  Sprintlink appears to have their 
>collective thumbs up you know where, and can't figure out how to
>reliably keep their routers working.   I have the misfortune to be linked
>with them to freefall, and have variously seen the following routes
>over the last few months:
>
>  chicago1 -> chicago2 -> chicago1 -> chicago2  	(chicago loop?)
>  chicago -> philadelphia -> chicago -> philadelphia
>  chicago -> philadelphia -> chicago -> st louis -> dc
>
>I assume that Sprintlink knows about this, as I've bugged my ISP to 
>bother them, but it doesn't seem to do much good.

   ...and this is all made worse by Sprint refusing to peer with CRL at
anywhere except the CIX which is constantly overloaded and losing it's
BGP peering sessions. Hopefully Sprint will agree to better peering when
CRL gets their DS3 circuit in operation to the Chicago NAP. ...unfortunately
this isn't due for another 6 weeks or so.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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