www/174526: main website (freebsd.org/www.freebsd.org) is unreachable from Nova Scotia Universities

[Peter Wemm]

The following reply was made to PR www/174526; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org>
To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org>
Cc: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, 
	"FreeBSD.org clusteradm" <clusteradm at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: www/174526: main website (freebsd.org/www.freebsd.org) is
 unreachable from Nova Scotia Universities
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:30:28 -0800

 On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > On 19 December 2012 16:53, Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca> wrote:
 >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
 >>> Connecting to www.dal.ca port 80 with an IP from our delegated /24 fails with:
 >>>
 >>> # tcpdump -s0 -i bge0 host www.dal.ca
 >>> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
 >>> listening on bge0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
 >>> 21:49:29.941767 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,sackOK,TS val 270875695 ecr 0], length 0
 >>> 21:49:32.940893 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,sackOK,TS val 270878695 ecr 0], length 0
 >>> 21:49:36.140885 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 6,sackOK,TS val 270881895 ecr 0], length 0
 >>> 21:49:39.340885 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460], length 0
 >>> 21:49:42.540895 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460], length 0
 >>> 21:49:45.740890 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460], length 0
 >>> 21:49:51.940891 IP routerer.FreeBSD.org.41224 > kil-cq5-4w0.ITS.Dal.Ca.http: Flags [S], seq 997436128, win 65535, options [mss 1460], length 0
 >>>
 >>
 >> Are you able to connect any one of www.smu.ca, www.acadiau.ca, or www.msvu.ca?
 >
 > Not from 8.8.178.0/24 - all requests time out.
 
 Hmm. We had a similar report about IPv6 reachability from the same
 general area in Canada recently too.  I'll poke around a little bit
 and see if I can see something.  Otherwise I'll file a ticket with the
 netops folks to have them look at the bgp routing announcements.
 
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