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Re: Wierd Route

  • From: Richard A. Steenbergen
  • Date: Mon Jan 22 03:52:18 2001

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jon Stanley wrote:

> The part that I was particularly concerned about was where it left qwest
> for BBNPlanet and got right back on Qwest.  I went ahead and gave them a
> call (at the number listed on Jared's page), and they asked for a
> traceroute, etc.  I gave them all the research that I had done and they
> just kinda fell silent when they saw my email to them.   Then they said
> "We'll have our NOC group take a look at this.".  I thought that I had
> called the NOC!!!!  Yet more examples of clueless morons manning the
> phones.  (Not saying that my employer is not guilty of the same :-( ),

The guilty party is AS3908, but the truely sad part is the lack of
filtering from their peers. Pass the pointy hat to bbn and c&w at a
minimium.

http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras/3908 by my count there are around 2500 routes,
most of them /24 or longer (count the /30s). And when you try to email
[email protected]

... while talking to uswgne21.uswest.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <[email protected]>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 [email protected] User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <[email protected]>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 [email protected] User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <[email protected]>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 [email protected] User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
<<< 550 5.2.1 <[email protected]>... Mailbox disabled for this
recipient
550 [email protected]  ... User unknown
... while talking to [199.117.162.13]:
>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
<<< 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown
550 [email protected] User unknown
550 [email protected] User unknown
550 <[email protected]>... User unknown

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