
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server. Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time. ^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms -- - Samer

Samer, Please read this slide deck on traceroutes: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N... It should help clarify what you’re seeing. If you have any subsequent questions, please post them on outages-discussion. Thanks, Frank Bulk From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of Samer Ziadeh via Outages Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:40 PM To: outages@outages.org Subject: [outages] Packets lost from 38.104.251.246 Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com <http://psi-net.com> , and it's one of the routers on the way to my server. Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time. ^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246> : icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246> : icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246> : icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246> : icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms -- - Samer

Pretty sure that's actually Cogent now. Major global transit provider. --tc On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Samer Ziadeh via Outages < outages@outages.org> wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server.
Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time.
^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms
-- - Samer
_______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/RAS_traceroute_N... Are you actually getting loss to the destination? On 25/09/14 09:39, Samer Ziadeh via Outages wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com <http://psi-net.com>, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server.
Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time.
^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246>: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246>: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246>: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms
-- - Samer
_______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Lowe via Outages" <outages@outages.org>
https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/RAS_traceroute_N...
Any chance we could get the guy who operates traceroute.org to post a copy of that as traceroute.org/howitworks? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274

What you’re seeing could be the result of control-plane policing kicking in - it might be helpful if you could post a traceroute, or give us the actual destination address of your server? Just because the router IP is showing loss doesn’t mean its not forwarding packets happily… Chris On 25 Sep 2014, at 7:39 am, Samer Ziadeh via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server.
Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time.
^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms
-- - Samer _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

thanks everyone for the help, here are the traceroutes. @Frank, thanks for the document, I’m going over it. traceroute to 184.75.220.219 (184.75.220.219), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 [AS0] 172.17.0.1 (172.17.0.1) 1.998 ms 3.296 ms 1.969 ms 2 [AS32580] 67.211.124.89 (67.211.124.89) 7.096 ms 20.431 ms 14.549 ms 3 [AS32580] 204.11.122.11 (204.11.122.11) 31.060 ms 7.706 ms 10.970 ms 4 [AS174] gi2-7.mag02.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.202.185) 6.187 ms 23.907 ms 3.755 ms 5 [AS174] te0-7-0-12.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.165) 9.520 ms 6.582 ms 6.827 ms 6 [AS174] 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246) 9.814 ms 4.868 ms 5.120 ms 7 [AS32489] 184.75.220.219 (184.75.220.219) 4.542 ms 20.715 ms 5.167 ms traceroute to 184.75.220.219 (184.75.220.219), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 [AS0] 172.17.0.1 (172.17.0.1) 11.209 ms 1.253 ms 3.192 ms 2 [AS32580] 67.211.124.89 (67.211.124.89) 6.940 ms 7.744 ms 4.480 ms 3 [AS32580] 204.11.122.11 (204.11.122.11) 2.756 ms 2.883 ms 2.915 ms 4 [AS174] gi2-7.mag02.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.202.185) 30.830 ms 248.287 ms 217.119 ms 5 [AS174] te0-7-0-12.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.165) 7.014 ms 38.764 ms 10.397 ms 6 [AS174] 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246) 38.716 ms * * 7 [AS32489] 184.75.220.219 (184.75.220.219) 4.868 ms 23.644 ms 6.788 ms traceroute to 184.75.220.222 (184.75.220.222), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 [AS0] 172.17.0.1 (172.17.0.1) 10.443 ms 1.233 ms 1.007 ms 2 [AS32580] 67.211.124.89 (67.211.124.89) 5.232 ms 10.124 ms 11.592 ms 3 [AS32580] 204.11.122.11 (204.11.122.11) 13.303 ms 3.953 ms 6.052 ms 4 [AS174] gi2-7.mag02.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.202.185) 3.763 ms 4.178 ms 3.967 ms 5 [AS174] te0-7-0-12.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.165) 3.958 ms 11.509 ms 4.727 ms 6 * * * 7 [AS32489] 184.75.220.222 (184.75.220.222) 5.754 ms 25.817 ms 7.113 ms
On Sep 24, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Chris Jones <chrisj@aprole.com> wrote:
What you’re seeing could be the result of control-plane policing kicking in - it might be helpful if you could post a traceroute, or give us the actual destination address of your server?
Just because the router IP is showing loss doesn’t mean its not forwarding packets happily…
Chris
On 25 Sep 2014, at 7:39 am, Samer Ziadeh via Outages <outages@outages.org <mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com <http://psi-net.com/>, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server.
Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time.
^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246/>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246/>: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246/>: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246 <http://38.104.251.246/>: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms
-- - Samer _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org <mailto:Outages@outages.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
// Samer

I will point out a couple of free web-based tools you also may wish to look at: Internet Health Report - http://www.internetpulse.net/ Traceroute engines from various looking glasses across the globe: http://www.traceroute.org Check to see if your site is publicly accessible or not: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ It would help us to help you if you can provide either the name or IP address of the web host you are attempting to reach - your web server in this case. WT On 24 September 2014 14:39, Samer Ziadeh via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the IP 38.104.251.246 ? After looking at google, it seems like it's for psi-net.com, and it's one of the routers on the way to my server.
Running a ping on that IP, majority of the packets are dropped, and it's causing my site to go down from time to time.
^_^ [~]$ ping 38.104.251.246 PING 38.104.251.246 (38.104.251.246): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=5.468 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5 Request timeout for icmp_seq 6 Request timeout for icmp_seq 7 Request timeout for icmp_seq 8 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=19.022 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 10 Request timeout for icmp_seq 11 Request timeout for icmp_seq 12 Request timeout for icmp_seq 13 Request timeout for icmp_seq 14 Request timeout for icmp_seq 15 Request timeout for icmp_seq 16 Request timeout for icmp_seq 17 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=3.957 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 19 Request timeout for icmp_seq 20 64 bytes from 38.104.251.246: icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=6.522 ms --- 38.104.251.246 ping statistics --- 23 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 82.6% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.957/8.742/19.022/6.005 ms
-- - Samer
_______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It's strange so many people choose to be stupid.
participants (7)
-
Chris Jones
-
Frank Bulk (iname.com)
-
Guy Lowe
-
Jay Ashworth
-
Samer Ziadeh
-
Tyler Christiansen
-
WalkaboutTigger .