[plug] The world has disappeared

[Bernd Felsche]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:27:37AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:35:25PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> > > Seems like westnet don't like people tracerouting to their
> > > server...

> > Now traceroute decides to work. Must be only some of westnet's
> > servers blocking!

> You can try a number of traceroute's. The default traceroute sends
> out UDP packets, but if you pass it the -I parameter, it chooses
> ICMP packets - some firewalls may pass one and deny the other. Then
> there's also tcptraceroute - which lets you traceroute using TCP
> packets on a certain port - also handy for testing behind tight
> firewalls.
> 
> In addition to all of that, it's quite possible that some routers
> and/or ISPs have blocked ICMP requests temporarily from clients to
> alleviate some of the impact of the latest M$ worm. Just a theory. :)

I've had a number of outages with iiNet since about 8 p.m. last
night.

Some 'whois' queries are not able to be resolved and come up with
	connect: No route to host
I suspect that there's a DoS attack in progress on major name
servers and routers.

I even get:
Aug 26 07:50:18 sprocket sendmail[15426]: HAA15419: to=<uce at ftc.gov>, ctladdr=<bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> (500/100), delay=00:01:03, xdelay=00:01:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=saltydog.ftc.gov. [164.62.3.23], stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with saltydog.ftc.gov. 

but:
Aug 26 07:49:23 sprocket sendmail[15425]: HAA15420: to=<submit.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at spam.spamcop.net>, ctladdr=<bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> (500/100), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, relay=repmx3.spamcop.net.  [216.127.43.87], stat=Sent (ok 1061855425 qp 23073)
works. 

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