NetRail's NOC currently has ticket 636 open for an outage at MAE-West. At least one NSP (SprintLink) continues to route traffic into the black hole of NetRail at MAE-West (the two also peer at AADS and other spots.) An equipment swap is needed to repair the equipment in question. Time required is unknown. This has been a day-long outage thus far. They claim to still be working the issue/ticket. #5 sl-bb21-stk-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.206): TTL Exceeded, ttl=251, 61 ms #6 sl-bb22-stk-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.4.242): TTL Exceeded, ttl=250, 60 ms #7 sl-w1-mae-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.1): TTL Exceeded, ttl=249, 60 ms #8 No response (): , ttl=, ms #9 at-1-1-1--3.pr1.Dallas2.Tx.us.netrail.net (205.215.61.106): TTL Exceeded, ttl=245, 992 ms #10 No response (): , ttl=, ms #11 at-0-2-0--0.tr1.Austin2.TX.us.netrail.net (205.215.63.157): TTL Exceeded, ttl=243, 681 ms #12 Zyan-100M.tse1.Austin2.Tx.us.netrail.net (209.44.90.74): TTL Exceeded, ttl=243, 180 ms ...lovely routing loop... TraceRoute - Saturday, November 18, 2000 14:36:52 #6 sl-bb21-stk-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.206): TTL Exceeded, ttl=251, 60 ms #7 sl-bb20-kc-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.205): TTL Exceeded, ttl=252, 60 ms #8 sl-bb20-kc-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.118): TTL Exceeded, ttl=252, 60 ms #9 sl-bb21-kc-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.117): TTL Exceeded, ttl=252, 60 ms ...and back to "normal"... #6 sl-bb20-chi-10-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.118): TTL Exceeded, ttl=251, 40 ms #7 sl-nap1-chi-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.237): TTL Exceeded, ttl=250, 30 ms #8 ameritech.netrail.net (206.220.243.58): TTL Exceeded, ttl=248, 40 ms #9 at-1-1-1--2.pr1.Dallas2.TX.us.netrail.net (205.215.61.113): TTL Exceeded, ttl=245, 91 ms #10 ge-0-0-0--0.tr1.Dallas2.Tx.us.netrail.net (205.215.61.149): TTL Exceeded, ttl=244, 100 ms #11 at-0-2-0--0.tr1.Austin2.TX.us.netrail.net (205.215.63.157): TTL Exceeded, ttl=243, 110 ms ...very flaky... It takes a different route every minute ;-) Unfortunately only one of the three passes traffic at an acceptable rate... Best regards, joe =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joe Budion Client Services Representative DSL Provisioning www.CISP.cc - Changing Internet Speed & Performance -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-