[server-admins] routes

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Could you please confirm that there are no longer any blocks banned from
accessing our server?




Extreme Internet Support wrote:
> We were having issues with, for the most part, with ALL of Africa. I
> banned several netblocks to prevent them from their continued
> hacking/spamming attacks.
> 
> I removed the one for .zw and now those should resolve.
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> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
>> Dear Support at Extreme Internet,
>>
>> Within the past few weeks CrossWire.org has seen routing problems from
>> various parts of the world.  We've had problems reported from Mexico,
>> Brazil, and Africa / Zimbabwe among others.  Below is a traceroute from
>> our server to IPs which are reporting problems, and one from the IP to
>> our server.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Traceroute away from crosswire.org toward any of the addresses in
>> question dies, not on crosswire.org itself, but 2 hops away:
>>
>> [charcoal at www ~]$ traceroute 196.215.26.11
>> traceroute to 196.215.26.11 (196.215.26.11), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>> 1  ip-140-154-249.phx.extremezone.com (64.140.154.249)  2.332 ms  2.748
>> ms  3.204 ms
>> 2  fe1-0-0.phx.extremezone.com (208.129.255.1)  1.432 ms  1.426 ms
>> 1.382 ms
>> 3  * * *
>> 4  * * *
>> 5  * * *
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> [scribe at www ~]$ traceroute 196.201.23.53
>> traceroute to 196.201.23.53 (196.201.23.53), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>> 1  ip-140-154-249.phx.extremezone.com (64.140.154.249)  1.638 ms  2.048
>> ms  2.529 ms
>> 2  fe1-0-0.phx.extremezone.com (208.129.255.1)  1.536 ms  1.521 ms
>> 1.497 ms
>> 3  * * *
>> 4  * * *
>> 5  * * *
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> teus at 2530p:~$ tracepath www.crosswire.org
>> 1:  2530p.local (192.168.0.1)                              0.271ms pmtu
>> 1500
>> 1:  192.168.0.8 (192.168.0.8)                              5.689ms
>> 1:  192.168.0.8 (192.168.0.8)                              2.449ms
>> 2:  10.2.4.1 (10.2.4.1)                                   14.829ms
>> 3:  192.168.221.2 (192.168.221.2)                         48.459ms
>> 4:  transmedia-byo-transit-gateway.zol.co.zw (196.201.23.53) 140.769ms
>> 5:  transit-mercury-bulgaria.zol.co.zw (196.201.1.181)   145.678ms
>> 6:  earth.zol.co.zw (196.201.1.113)                       96.517ms
>> 7:  pt-btc.zol.co.zw (196.201.1.234)                      94.104ms
>> 8:  41.78.76.145 (41.78.76.145)                          190.166ms
>> 9:  168.167.255.69 (168.167.255.69)                       92.135ms
>> 10:  bw-gbe-msu1-pr2.btc.net.bw (168.167.253.12)           87.636ms
>> 11:  168.167.255.73 (168.167.255.73)                      448.305ms
>> 12:  166.49.170.45 (166.49.170.45)                        383.748ms
>> asymm 20
>> 13:  166-49-135-229.eu.bt.net (166.49.135.229)            401.982ms
>> asymm 19
>> 14:  t2c1-p9-2.uk-eal.eu.bt.net (166.49.195.202)          523.328ms
>> asymm 19
>> 15:  t2c1-p5-0-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net (166.49.164.65)         521.726ms
>> asymm 20
>> 16:  166-49-151-134.eu.bt.net (166.49.151.134)            443.469ms
>> asymm 19
>> 17:  phx-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.32.162)            477.319ms
>> asymm 22
>> 18:  phx-edge-10.inet.qwest.net (205.171.129.38)          491.561ms
>> asymm 22
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>>     Too many hops: pmtu 1500
>>     Resume: pmtu 1500
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> If there's a firewall with a bias against South Africa, it's in the
>>> middle of, or perhaps at the edge of, extremezone.com.
>>>
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