[aklug] Alaska peering (was: Re: clearwire in anchorage)

From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
Date: Tue Jun 08 2010 - 09:18:47 AKDT

Arthur Corliss wrote, on 6/8/2010 8:12 AM:
> town. The lack of peering agreements in Alaska is just downright asinine.

ACS, GCI and MTA all appear to be peering, each no more than 1.5 ms apart to/from ACS:

GCI:

$ host -t ns gci.net
gci.net name server vans-2.gci.net.
gci.net name server vans-1.gci.net.

$ traceroute vans-2.gci.net.
traceroute to vans-2.gci.net (209.165.131.15), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1 [redacted - my internal network]
 2 vlan236-cr8-nwc.static.acsalaska.net (209.193.51.252) 0.597 ms 0.567 ms 0.631 ms
 3 ae1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.33) 0.639 ms 0.597 ms 0.582 ms
 4 vlan4011-ge6-2-gsr1.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.40) 0.668 ms 0.590 ms 0.530 ms
 5 220-182-165-209.akdist.static.gci.net (209.165.182.220) 0.867 ms 0.871 ms 1.191 ms
 6 50-128-165-209.gci.net (209.165.128.50) 1.236 ms 1.067 ms 0.894 ms
 7 18-128-165-209.gci.net (209.165.128.18) 1.143 ms 1.003 ms 1.009 ms
 8 133-128-165-209.gci.net (209.165.128.133) 1.075 ms 0.971 ms 0.947 ms
 9 194-128-165-209.gci.net (209.165.128.194) 0.956 ms 0.879 ms 1.079 ms
10 vans-2.gci.net (209.165.131.15) 0.893 ms 1.050 ms 0.965 ms

MTA:

$ host -t ns mtasolutions.com
mtasolutions.com name server ns2.mtaonline.net.
mtasolutions.com name server ns1.mtaonline.net.

$ traceroute ns1.mtaonline.net.
traceroute to ns1.mtaonline.net (216.152.176.1), 30 hops max, 40 b
traceroute to ns1.mtaonline.net (216.152.176.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1 [redacted - my internal network]
 2 vlan236-cr8-nwc.static.acsalaska.net (209.193.51.252) 0.641 ms 0.642 ms 0.552 ms
 3 ae1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.33) 0.584 ms 0.603 ms 0.610 ms
 4 69-162-207-44.static.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.44) 0.857 ms 1.027 ms 0.804 ms
 5 69-162-209-130.static.acsalaska.net (69.162.209.130) 1.203 ms 1.265 ms 1.424 ms
 6 fesx648-1-er-e2.mtaonline.net (216.152.176.134) 1.494 ms 1.653 ms 1.301 ms
 7 ns1.mtaonline.net (216.152.176.1) 1.223 ms !X 1.288 ms !X 1.151 ms !X

I wasn't immediately able to determine AT&T space local to Alaska. I can't traceroute to this MX:

rwilliam@toast:~$ host -t mx alascom.com
alascom.com mail is handled by 10 smtp1.anc.attalascom.net.
alascom.com mail is handled by 20 smtp2.anc.attalascom.net.
rwilliam@toast:~$ host smtp1.anc.attalascom.net.
smtp1.anc.attalascom.net has address 192.234.141.6
smtp1.anc.attalascom.net mail is handled by 20 smtp2.anc.attalascom.net.
smtp1.anc.attalascom.net mail is handled by 10 smtp1.anc.attalascom.net.

... because ICMP appears to be being blocked in the middle:

rwilliam@toast:~$ traceroute 192.234.141.6
traceroute to 192.234.141.6 (192.234.141.6), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1 10.0.0.119 (10.0.0.119) 0.758 ms 0.454 ms 0.409 ms
 2 vlan236-cr8-nwc.static.acsalaska.net (209.193.51.252) 0.594 ms 0.560 ms 0.518 ms
 3 ae1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.33) 0.752 ms 0.569 ms 0.669 ms
 4 ge0-0-4011-cr6.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.53) 0.766 ms 0.838 ms 0.838 ms
 5 216-67-90-94.static.acsalaska.net (216.67.90.94) 0.995 ms 1.207 ms 0.959 ms
 6 AncrSmeDistRtr-2-vrrp-254.attalascom.net (12.12.1.254) 3.620 ms 3.447 ms 3.517 ms
 7 * * *
[23 remaining timeouts snipped]

Borealisbroadband.net appears to be a child of AT&T, IP-wise:

$ whois 12.17.180.123
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
                                  12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255
BOREALIS BROADBAND BOREALIS912-176 (NET-12-17-176-0-1)
                                  12.17.176.0 - 12.17.183.255

On the assumption that that block is BB's Alaska block, BB (and AT&T as its parent) do not appear to be peering with ACS in Anchorage:

$ traceroute 123.180.stro.anc.borealisbroadband.net.
traceroute to 123.180.stro.anc.borealisbroadband.net (12.17.180.123), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1 [redacted - my internal network]
 2 vlan236-cr8-nwc.static.acsalaska.net (209.193.51.252) 0.677 ms 0.572 ms 0.602 ms
 3 ae1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.33) 0.595 ms 0.561 ms 0.577 ms
 4 so-2-1-0-0-r1.sea.acsalaska.net (69.162.207.194) 33.776 ms 33.707 ms 33.751 ms
 5 69-161-21-110.static.acsalaska.net (69.161.21.110) 33.652 ms 33.775 ms 33.638 ms
 6 ge-6-3.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.71.156.5) 33.779 ms 33.800 ms 48.278 ms
 7 ae-1-51.edge1.Seattle3.Level3.net (4.68.105.12) 33.915 ms 33.933 ms 33.988 ms
 8 192.205.36.153 (192.205.36.153) 34.371 ms 34.404 ms 34.279 ms
 9 12.122.146.178 (12.122.146.178) 69.183 ms 69.157 ms 68.196 ms
10 12.122.5.170 (12.122.5.170) 34.598 ms 34.547 ms 34.447 ms
11 12.127.6.121 (12.127.6.121) 67.579 ms 67.681 ms 67.655 ms
12 12.119.146.62 (12.119.146.62) 68.236 ms 74.174 ms 68.322 ms
13 wireless.dtn.anc.BorealisBroadband.net (12.17.138.3) 70.616 ms 78.555 ms 77.443 ms
14 dtn-rtr.stro.anc.borealisbroadband.net (12.17.185.140) 81.262 ms 76.629 ms 77.913 ms
15 12.17.139.114 (12.17.139.114) 78.039 ms 72.517 ms 75.442 ms
16 *^C

Royce
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