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Re: Second day of rolling blackouts starts

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Thu Jan 18 22:27:34 2001

Is your network multicast enabled ? My traceroute to you shows 
that you home to AS 2548, which is.

If so, this might be connected to the RAMEN worm. This is hosing up
native multicast
but good, so much so that it is affecting routers and causing some
unicast problems. I heard, for
example, that it is causing 4% packet loss at the Abilene NOC. RAMEN is
(for the multicast enabled
part of the Internet) effectively a DOS attack.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks  

James Harkins wrote:
> 
> I have noticed east coast routers/providers are getting
> beat up fairly rough. I am having hard times getting my
> clients in Europe to see me here in San Diego.  Level3
> and PSInet are taking a beating hard.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
> 
> On Thu, 18 January 2001, "Steven J. Sobol" wrote:
> > Is anyone seeing lots of routing oddities? I'm not able to get to a lot
> > of sites that I normally can, that are hosted in different places; and I'm
> > wondering if some providers are routing around California outages.
> 
> Not that I know of.  There is something squirrely going on with the
> root name servers, but I haven't figured it out if it is just my location
> or more widespread.

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