They are alive! host_name("217.167.29.246","www.francetelecom.com"). No ping, no traceroute, but I get their homepage. host_name("84.167.240.52","p54A7F034.dip.t-dialin.net"). That is me. 217.0.67.105 (217.0.67.105) 9.237 ms 9.128 ms 9.335 ms da-ea1.DA.DE.net.DTAG.DE (62.153.179.54) 8.362 ms 8.445 ms 9.784 ms That is my way out. In europe there seem to be no problems. I have not seen anything in forums here. From http://vision.opentransit.net/docs/peering_policy/ "If you meet the criteria defined above, please send your formal peering application by email to peering5511 at opentransit.net (peering@opentransit.net has been discontinued)" I guess they have another mailbox in "qa." Regards, Peter Dambier -- Peter und Karin Dambier Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49-6252-671788 (Telekom) +49-6252-599091 (O2 Genion) +49-6252-750308 (Sipgate VoIP) peter@peter-dambier.de www.peter-dambier.de peter-dambier.site.voila.fr