On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Zhasper wrote: > Interesting > > I'm on TPG in sydney also, and I had problems getting to mirror.aarnet a few > days ago also.. didn't think anything of it at the time, just used > planetmirror instead.. > > however, when I read this, something went *twig* inside my head.. I'm off to > the doctors to get that looked at now, but on my way out, I did a traceroute > and noticed this: > > Hostname > 1. syd-ts5-2600.tpgi.com.au > 2. syd-lan-gw.tpgi.com.au -snip- > 17. VICRNO-INT.mi2.optus.net.au > 18. vic-act.atm.net.aarnet.edu.au > 19. ??? > > My guess would be that aarnet's seeing the traffic coming in as being > international traffic and hence dropping it - it's definitely nothing to do > with TPG > > Jason, who runs both mirror.aarnet and planetmirror, and who I've cc'd this > email to, can probably provide more info..
just to butt in here for a bit. i can see straight away that the address space that hops 1 & 2 are on is not in the domestic routing table. a quick check of telstra and optus confirms same. (planetmirror traffic to you would also be going to the usa and back, 20 hops later .....) this suggests either tpgi do not have domestic connectivity, or for some reason have selected not to advertise those networks. --matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
