On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
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).
It may not be related, but there have been several strange route inconsistencies wondering around the network yesterday and today affecting a variety of sites for a few hours at a time. Even stranger it seems to only be affecting routes in parts of the net, so the site is sometimes reachable from one place but not another. One person monitoring BGP picked up lots of inconsistent routes from his peers last night, but they've cleared up now. Either there is a odd bug in vendor's routing software, a network engineer has goofed, or someone is playing games.