[outages] AT&T Apparently Blocking ooVoo -- WAS: Re: ooVoo WebSite Outage?

[Seth Mattinen]

On 11/15/12 2:15 PM, james machado wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
>> On 11/15/12 1:16 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM,  <jrk1231-outml at nym.hush.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I should add that if I proxy my web connection through a server I have at
>>>> ServerBeach, I have no issues accessing ooVoo.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts / comments on how to get this fixed?
>>>
>>> I have found in the past that the most effective
>>> way to deal with the random traffic blackholing
>>> that ATT does was to stop buying service from
>>> them.  Once I did that, those headaches vanished
>>> like the morning mists on a midsummers day.
>>>
>>> Short of that, all I can say is that alcohol can
>>> sometimes help deaden the pain slightly.
>>>
>>
>> Are we talking about residential DSL/u-verse or "business" Metro
>> Ethernet (FastE, GigE, etc. over opt-e-man)?
>>
> 
> blocked in SoCal from managed business service.  a traceroute for
> www.oovoo.com gets dropped at the managed internet router. other
> traces work fine.
> 


At an AT&T provided MIS router (on premise) or a hop or two past that?

I'm curious to know if they're pushing a blocking ACL to MIS with
managed (AT&T provided) routers or further up from that, which would
mean that customers with their own router wouldn't be affected.

~Seth