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Odd, I'm trying to reach a host in Germany (AS34432) from Sweden but get rerouted Stockholm-Hamburg-Amsterdam-London-Paris-London-Atlanta-São Paulo after which the packets disappear down a black hole. All routing problems occur within Cogentco.

    3  sth-cr2.link.netatonce.net (85.195.62.158) 
    4  te0-2-1-8.rcr51.b038034-0.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com 
    5  be3530.ccr21.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.93)
    6  be2282.ccr42.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.105)  
    7  be2815.ccr41.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.38.205) 
    8  be12194.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.56.93)   
    9  be12497.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.56.130)  
   10  be2315.ccr31.bio02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.61.113)  
   11  be2113.ccr42.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.222)  
   12  be2112.ccr41.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.158)
   13  be2027.ccr22.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.86.206)
   14  be2025.ccr22.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.230)
   15  * level3.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.58) 
   16  * * *
   17  * * *


What seems to have happened is that Centurylinks internal routing has collapsed in some way. But they're still announcing all routes and they don't stop announcing routes when other ISPs tag their routes not to be exported by Centurylink.

So as other providers shut down their links to Centurylink to save themselves the outgoing packets towards centurylink travel to some part of the world where links are not shut down yet.




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