Hi,
I’ve been a new Verizon residential FIOS user since May and the mysterious connectivity issues at home lead me to a bit of hunting. From what I can tell, the Verizon network as a whole effectively blocks or filters following major networks. The same networks are mostly reachable from AT&T LTE networks and major cloud computing providers.
Below is a comparison of ‘show ip route’ of a VZ router and a routeviews router.
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81.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2835 subnets, 14 masks
121.51.0.0/16
182.254.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 2 masks
route-views.routeviews.org>
81.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 3247 subnets, 19 masks
121.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2571 subnets, 18 masks
182.254.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 113 subnets, 5 masks
Anyone able to validate my findings, and/or take this issue to higher VZ support?
Thanks.
a message of 61 lines which said:
<VZ INET router>#
81.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2835 subnets, 14 masks
121.51.0.0/16 <empty>
182.254.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 2 masks
route-views.routeviews.org>
81.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 3247 subnets, 19 masks
121.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2571 subnets, 18 masks
182.254.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 113 subnets, 5 masks
Anyone able to validate my findings, and/or take this issue to higher VZ
support?
Testing with the RIPE Atlas probes show that 121.51.0.13 (which is
pingable) is not reachable at all from AS 701. But it still has
reachability problems from other networks in the world, with many
timeouts (but the problem at 701 is more radical).
At least 121.51.0.0/16 and 121.51.0.0/23 seems to be seen in many
places.
Verizon Executive Relations team reached out to their network team and the finding is that Tencent is not announcing the prefixes to them.
Result: Verizon is not going to pursue this.