Africa Online Kenya

Apparently Cogent’s depeering of Telia wasn’t the only thing happening yesterday.

On a completely unrelated note, Africa Online Kenya has had its routes hijacked by Above.net.

Note: Hijacked – In the most unintentional, accidental sense of the word

Considering that Above.net (AS 6461) has far better connectivity than Africa Online (AS 36915), the AS Path length to reach the “rogue” destination announced by Above.net is much shorter than it is to reach the real network that’s originated by AS36915.

It’s not surprising to see that traffic from most parts of the Internet isn’t getting to Africa Online.
So this is what the vicious resulting routing loop looks like.

24  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.10)  357.558 ms
25  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.9)  363.601 ms
26  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.10)  362.423 ms
27  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.9)  433.442 ms
28  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.10)  447.481 ms
29  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.9)  365.125 ms
30  pni-verio.ams2.nl.above.net (82.98.247.10)  373.778 ms

More details here. ( arbornetworks.com )

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2 Responses to “Africa Online Kenya”

  1. GF Says:
    March 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    好久没来,来了以为走错地方了.居然换了blog的structure.呵呵.明天BT加油吧~~让我们一起die gloriously for econs

  2. bangky Says:
    March 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    keke.. kekekeke……………………………….. haiz -_-”

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