Anyone have any info on Alternet's outage? We have had to shutdown several
interfaces to Alternet routers in the Washington DC area as they appear to have been
blackholing our packets. Calls to their NOC have not been able to gather
any further information.
nope, although i see that uunet (among others) are still reachable via psi 
peer1.sjc1#sh ip bgp re 174_2713_5727
BGP table version is 5259866, local router ID is 207.240.24.10
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
* 4.0.0.0 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 1 i
* 12.64.0.0/12 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 5074 i
* 36.0.0.0 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 1 32 i
*> 62.0.0.0 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 1
1239 568 400 ?
*> 62.72.0.0/18 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 701
3491 5427 i
* 62.192.0.0/19 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 701
3491 6705 i
* 62.216.0.0/19 198.32.136.23 10 80 0 174 2713 5727 701
4000 5583 i
etc...
i've asked psi to correct the problem...
-danny