[48590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail-abuse.org down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Sun Jun 9 00:07:02 2002
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 21:06:30 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, noc@ABOVE.NET, paul@VIX.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0206081052270.10407-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:06:04AM -0400, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
> Yesterday morning, I noticed mail-abuse.org appeared to be down
> (unreachable). I checked again, and it's still unreachable. In fact, I
> can't even reach its name server.
>
> I did some more looking last night, and it seems it's not down, it's just
> unreachable from my network. Even stranger, it's only unreachable from
> Atlantic.Net's primary ARIN block of 209.208.0.0/17. Traceroutes die at
> so-1-1-0.mpr1.sql1.us.mfnx.net (209.249.203.58).
MFN have a history of dropping in blackholes for unsolicited relay tests...
are you sure your njabl experiment hasn't pissed off someone at MFN enough
to drop you in?