Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:13:00 -0500 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get to freefall.FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <322D9C7C.17505737@hiwaay.net> References: <199609041432.JAA05229@right.PCS>
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Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > 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. > -- > Jonathan That's really wierd, because at work (in Alabama) my machine is connected via a dedicated ISDN line to our Chicago office and any time I have wanted to get from freefall here it seems to work. I would do a traceroute to see how the packets are being routed but our firewall won't allow me to sling ICMP packets. :( >From the responses to hackers@ and some private E-mail it seems we are not alone. I wonder if we band together in protest we can get anything done about it. Anybody know someone at Sprintlink so that we can ping -f them and get things off dead center? Steve
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