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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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