[Outages-discussion] [outages] DNS resolution of ebay.com - routing loop

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Bulk - iName.com" <frnkblk at iname.com>

> Update -- there's a routing loop between our upstream provider and
> Sprint. Hence the lack of DNS resolution. =)
> 
> nagios:/home/fbulk# tcptraceroute 66.135.207.137
> Selected device eth0.3, address 96.31.0.5, port 39237 for outgoing
> packets
> Tracing the path to 66.135.207.137 on TCP port 80 (www), 30 hops max
> ...

[ trace of unusual 4-hop routing loop elided ]

So, does this mean that eBay's DNS is deployed in a fashion where one bomb
can get them all, from your viewpoint?  I assume that if you were off-net
completely, you would have been reporting something different, if at all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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