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EXEMPLAR: Re: AT&T SFO to Twitter -- possible routing issue or BGP hijack
*This*, folks and peoples, is a good problem report.

Strive to provide this much detail, or more.

The price of free help is you gotta show your work:

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-- jr '<admin/>' a

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Chadwick via Outages" <outages@outages.org>
> To: outages@outages.org
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2023 2:17:12 AM
> Subject: [outages] AT&T SFO to Twitter -- possible routing issue or BGP hijack

> Found twitter.com was not loading tonight. Dug in.
>
> $ host www.twitter.com
> www.twitter.com is an alias for twitter.com.
> twitter.com has address 104.244.42.129
> twitter.com mail is handled by 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
> twitter.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
> twitter.com mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
> twitter.com mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
> twitter.com mail is handled by 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
>
> $ dig ns twitter.com +short
> b.r06.twtrdns.net.
> a.r06.twtrdns.net.
> c.r06.twtrdns.net.
> d.r06.twtrdns.net.
> a.u06.twtrdns.net.
> b.u06.twtrdns.net.
> c.u06.twtrdns.net.
> d.u06.twtrdns.net.
>
> $ dig @b.r06.twtrdns.net a twitter.com +short
> 104.244.42.129
>
> And 104.244.42.129 does indeed point to Twitter (per WHOIS/ARIN), so doesn't
> appear to be a DNS-related thing. Onward we go:
>
> $ mtr www.twitter.com
> Packets Pings
> Host Loss% Snt
> Rcv Last Avg Best Wrst
> 1. 192.168.1.254 0.0% 9
> 9 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.8
> 2. 172-10-232-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (172.10.232.1) 0.0% 9
> 9 2.3 2.3 1.5 4.3
> 3. 71.148.149.42 (71.148.149.42) 0.0% 8
> 8 2.6 2.7 1.7 3.9
> 4. 12.242.117.22 (12.242.117.22) 0.0% 8
> 8 4.6 6.1 3.6 8.2
> 5. att-gw.sfo.pccw.net (192.205.32.82) 0.0% 8
> 8 6.7 6.5 5.3 8.1
> 6. Bundle-Ether45.br04.osa01.pccwbtn.net (63.223.26.30) 0.0% 8
> 8 121.6 121.1 119.6 122.8
> 7. 63-222-51-222.static.pccwglobal.net (63.222.51.222) 0.0% 8
> 8 154.3 154.4 153.3 155.8
> 8. (waiting for reply)
> 9. 104.244.42.129 (104.244.42.129) 0.0% 8
> 8 151.5 152.6 151.4 153.8
>
> $ mtr -z www.twitter.com
>
> Packets Pings
> Host Loss% Snt
> Rcv Last Avg Best Wrst
> 1. AS??? 192.168.1.254 0.0% 8
> 8 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.8
> 2. AS7018 172-10-232-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (172.10.2 0.0% 8
> 8 1.3 2.2 1.0 4.1
> 3. AS7018 71.148.149.42 (71.148.149.42) 0.0% 8
> 8 2.2 3.4 1.9 5.0
> 4. AS7018 12.242.117.22 (12.242.117.22) 0.0% 8
> 8 6.0 6.1 4.5 7.6
> 5. AS7018 att-gw.sfo.pccw.net (192.205.32.82) 0.0% 8
> 8 5.6 6.2 4.8 7.7
> 6. AS3491 Bundle-Ether45.br04.osa01.pccwbtn.net (63.223.26.30) 0.0% 8
> 8 120.4 120.7 120.0 121.5
> 7. AS3491 63-222-51-222.static.pccwglobal.net (63.222.51.222) 0.0% 8
> 8 154.1 155.4 153.6 161.5
> 8. (waiting for reply)
> 9. AS13414 104.244.42.129 (104.244.42.129) 0.0% 7
> 7 152.7 152.2 150.8 154.0
>
> AS3491 (pccwbtn.net) is PCCW Global, though a WHOIS on pccwbtn.net says
> they're PCCW-HKT out of Hong Kong, which would explains the huge jump in
> latency (6ms -> 121ms) since I'm located in California. 63.223.26.30 is
> also PCCW Global.
>
> PeeringDB says https://www.peeringdb.com/net/674 (AT&T) has a looking
> glass server at http://route-server.ip.att.net/ but the webserver is not
> listening on TCP port 80, nor 443:
>
> $ telnet route-server.ip.att.net 80
> Trying 12.0.1.28...
> telnet: connect to address 12.0.1.28: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
> $ telnet route-server.ip.att.net 443
> Trying 12.0.1.28...
> telnet: connect to address 12.0.1.28: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
>
> And for those that want source and destinations:
>
> src IP: 107.197.104.143 (AT&T Fibre)
> dst IP: 104.244.42.129 (Twitter)
>
> --
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>| UNIX Systems Administrator PGP 0x2A389531 |
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