Is this legal? traceroute to www.japan.net (204.68.24.180), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 nac-nyc1-fa0-100Mb (207.99.0.201) 1.648 ms 1.063 ms 0.765 ms 2 e9-0.border1.nyc1.genuity.net (207.240.48.49) 1.569 ms 1.922 ms 4.960 ms 3 f6.core1.nyc1.genuity.net (207.240.1.81) 1.606 ms 1.737 ms 2.747 ms 4 core1.wdc1.genuity.net (207.240.0.25) 6.691 ms 8.987 ms 10.889 ms 5 h1.peer1.wdc1.genuity.net (207.240.1.246) 8.311 ms 10.539 ms 9.257 ms 6 maeeast.acsi.net (192.41.177.108) 8.230 ms 8.514 ms 8.878 ms 7 columb-sc-1-a12-0.acsi.net (206.222.97.1) 20.543 ms 22.417 ms 18.487 ms 8 greenv-sc-1-a12-0.acsi.net (206.222.97.5) 27.777 ms 27.418 ms28.025 ms 9 little-ar-1-a12-0-1.acsi.net (206.222.97.2) 60.061 ms 54.746 ms 55.946 ms 10 fortwo-tx-1-a12-0.acsi.net (206.222.97.6) 55.008 ms 61.942 ms 63.695 ms 11 904.Hssi4-0.GW1.HOU1.ALTER.NET (157.130.128.25) 60.870 ms 58.826 ms 61.469 ms 12 321.atm1-0-0.cr1.hou1.alter.net (137.39.21.109) 63.880 ms 57.682 ms 62.116 ms 13 112.ATM8-0-0.CR1.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.31.5) 201.734 ms * 72.052 ms 14 311.ATM6-0-0.SR1.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.21.73) 69.777 ms 71.955 ms 72.176 ms 15 h14-1.t104-0.Atlanta.t3.ans.net (140.223.65.18) 100.501 ms * 102.249 ms 16 h13-1.t64-0.Houston.t3.ans.net (140.223.65.13) 107.077 ms 99.397 ms 109.687 ms 17 h13-1.t80-1.St-Louis.t3.ans.net (140.223.25.14) 98.975 ms 99.187 ms 101.531 ms 18 h11-1.t24-0.Chicago.t3.ans.net (140.223.25.21) 115.362 ms 103.821 ms 93.777 ms 19 * h13-1.t96-0.Denver.t3.ans.net (140.223.25.18) 125.611 ms 125.056 ms 20 f1-0.c96-10.Denver.t3.ans.net (140.222.96.197) 123.094 ms 130.940 ms 124.054 ms 21 enss3336.t3.ans.net (207.25.224.18) 127.490 ms 123.043 ms * 22 * * * 23 * * *
Has anyone here dealt with ACSI? They call themselves a "backbone" provider. We have had no end of trouble getting address space from them (They refuse to give us a /24 (yes, a /24) without significant documentation.) When I asked about them delegating reverse DNS to us, they said "no". They want to keep the delegation and do zone transfers from us. Are these common policies with ACSI (or other backbone providers), or are they just trying to be annoying? My only experience with these things has been SprinkLink. They delegate reverse DNS to us, no problem. We have never had problems getting address space from them (granted we are not asking for /19's) Also, does anyone have any experience with the performance of their network? I was trying to test our connection to them and it was horribly, horribly slow. Accessing www.yahoo.com, for example, took nearly 5 mins for the page to load. Accessing the same page via our SprintLink connection took all of 5 seconds. I suspect it was something on our network, but I wanted to get the impressions of other people regarding their performance. -- Eric Wieling (eric@ccti.net), Corporate Communications Technology Sales: 504-585-7303 (sales@ccti.net), Support: 504-525-5449 (support@ccti.net) I don't bother to set my alarm clock anymore. Someone always pages me before I need to wake up anyway.
Has anyone here dealt with ACSI? They call themselves a "backbone" provider.
ACSI has a horrendous spam problem due to Dakotacom and a few other leased line spam factories. Now that AGIS appears slowly to be cleaning up their act, ACSI is poised to become the NSP that everyone hates and filters out. I am trying to get in touch with people there who can do something about it, and I have no reason yet to believe that they're anything other than underinformed, but the spam problem is very real and very well known. See my spam summary page http://www.abuse.net/ACSI-report.html to see what they've sent lately to addresses on my tiny home network. Until they get that problem under control, I would be very cautious about depending on them for connections to the rest of the net. Regards, John Levine, postmaster@abuse.net, http://www.abuse.net, Trumansburg NY abuse.net postmaster
I have one T1 through ACSI currently (two others through MCI and AT&T). Our sales rep is really on the ball, but their engineering department seems to be less than cooperative. I sent in our BGP requirements/request to their NOC on Oct 15th (for the 2nd time) and I still haven't even *heard* from them. My sales rep is trying to raise cain, but doesn't seem to be working yet. As for IP requests: I don't even want to go there. You might have better luck going directly to the InterNIC than through ACSI. This CLEC is incredibly priced, but in the end you might just get what you pay for. Regards, Barry Barry L James | Mikrotec Internet Services, Inc (AS3801) Director R & D | 1001 Winchester Rd bjames@mis.net | Lexington KY 40505 http://www.mis.net/ | 606/225.1488 800/875.5095 --- Chance favours the prepared mind.
At 09:53 AM 11/11/97 -0600, Eric Wieling wrote:
Also, does anyone have any experience with the performance of their network? I was trying to test our connection to them and it was horribly, horribly slow. Accessing www.yahoo.com, for example, took nearly 5 mins for the page to load. Accessing the same page via our SprintLink connection took all of 5 seconds. I suspect it was something on our network, but I wanted to get the impressions of other people regarding their performance.
You can see uu.net, priori.net and acsi.net compared at <http://noc.texoma.net/mrtg> if you believe the proof is in the pudding `[8-)) tucows.texoma.net is still on uu.net IP space as of this time. Of course, one of the reasons is that Mr. Madison hasn't responded to requests for BGP announcement changes in the last two weeks and, indeed, has been making no visible announcements since last week. My recommendation - switch to priori.net, the folks I know and trust. Anyone have a soft landing spot when we get kicked out of ACSI colo in Las Colinas?
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