From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 4 08:17:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16539 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 08:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shogun.tdktca.com ([206.26.1.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16534 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 08:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shogun.tdktca.com (daemon@localhost) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id KAA11801 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:17:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fa.tdktca.com (bsd.fa.tdktca.com [163.49.131.129]) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id KAA11795 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:17:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from rubberneck.fa.tdktca.com (rubberneck.fa.tdktca.com [163.49.136.90]) by fa.tdktca.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA28774; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:19:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <322D9C7C.17505737@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:13:00 -0500 From: Steve Price X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.10 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get to freefall.FreeBSD.org References: <199609041432.JAA05229@right.PCS> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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