[138444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A BGP issue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Mar 8 02:30:31 2011
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:25:52 +0200
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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At 21:49 07/03/2011 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2011, at 14:27, Greg Ihnen <os10rules@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I run a small network on a mission base in the Amazon jungle which is
> fed by a satellite internet connection. We had an outage from Feb 25th to
> the 28th where we had no connectivity with email, http/s, ftp, Skype
> would indicate it's connected but even chatting failed, basically
> everything stopped working except for ICMP. I could ping everywhere just
> fine. I started doing traceroutes and they all were very odd, all not
> reaching their destination and some hopping all over creation before
> dying. But if I did traceroute with ICMP it worked fine. Does this
> indicate our upstream (Bantel.net) had a BGP issue? Bantel blamed
> Hughesnet which is the service they resell. I'm wondering what kind of
> problem would let ping work fine but not any of the other protocols. It
> also seems odd that I could traceroute via UDP part way to a destination
> but then it would fail if the problem was my own provider. Thanks.
> >
> > If this is the wrong forum for this post I'm sorry and please just hit
> delete. If this is the wrong forum but you'd be kind enough to share your
> expertise please reply off-list. Thanks!
>
>Honestly, I would rate this as one of the most on-topic posts in a while.
+1.
When you have http working I suggest running:
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html
to give you a benchmark of what your connection can do in the way of protocols.
Regards,
Hank
