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

[james machado]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> 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?
>

on premise AT&T provided and managed MIS router.

> 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
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