[27884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint routing issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Bastin)
Thu Mar 23 01:16:12 2000
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:50:53 -0500
To: jlewis@lewis.org, nanog@nanog.org
From: Nick Bastin <nbastin@mil3.com>
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>On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Nick Bastin wrote:
>
>> >I can ping all of them, but none answer DNS queries. Makes it tough to
>> >access their customers.
>>
>> Sprint has a master ticket #3461302 open for at least something related to
>> this problem, or at least that's what the engineer thought. Apparently
>> they're having an 'issue' with a router on the east coast. He muttered
>> something about gateway 13, but I didn't catch it all.
>
>I just got another call back to tell me that they'd isolated the problem
>to the Orlando, FL site where we connect to them. I said "I don't think
>so." All their NS servers are unreachable or unresponsive (to the whole
>net, not just me), and they think it's a bad circuit in Orlando? It seems
>almost like the two callbacks I've gotten so far are from different parts
>of Sprint. Neither seems to know what the other is doing. Neither seems
>to know what's going on in general. At least the first one knew there was
>some general "big problem" on their network. Both are acting on the same
>ticket opened by a single phone call from me.
Probably a good sign - their name servers are responding again.
traceroute's still die though.
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @206.228.179.10 sprint.com any any
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 10, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; sprint.com, type = ANY, class = ANY
<actual reply deleted to save space>
;; Total query time: 44 msec
;; FROM: rwstevens to SERVER: 206.228.179.10
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 23 00:46:18 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 28 rcvd: 402
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Nick Bastin
Software Developer
OPNET Technologies
