Earthlink DSL → Re: disconnections

after a lengthy discussion of these troubles on saturday night with EarthLink, Seems that all Flashcom refugees seem to be affected. also seems to common to anyone getting IP addresses in the 63.13.0.0 range. Trace routes when service is not working indicate that I can can get to the gateway but no further. On top of this, takes a long time to get to get to that gateway. Results are very consistant. Also noted, I can disconnect and reconnect using either the linksys and winpoet when ever I want during the interruptions with no problems. EarthLink, any ideas??????

The problem may be regional. I am a Flashcom refugee too and always receive a 63.13.x.x address. I have never gotten kicked off. I did notice that after my migration that my latency and hops to DSLR increased moderately.

This is interesting... I did a whois on our IPs and found that this netblock is owned by UUNET. The DNS servers that PPPoE assigns are also registered to UUNET. Tracerts also confirm that my traffic is going out the UUNET backbone too. This just gets more interesting all the time. What is it that Earthlink is actually doing for us?? Probably just billing us as a reseller for UUNET...

UUNET Technologies, Inc. (NETBLK-NETBLK-UUNET97DU)
3060 Williams Drive, Suite 601
Fairfax, va 22031
US

Netname: NETBLK-UUNET97DU
Netblock: 63.0.0.0 - 63.61.255.255
Maintainer: UUDA

Coordinator:
UUNET, AlterNet - Technical Support (OA12-ARIN) help@UUNET.UU.NET
800-900-0241

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

DIALDNS1.UU.NET 153.39.194.10
DIALDNS2.UU.NET 153.39.194.26

ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE

Record last updated on 20-Oct-2000.
Database last updated on 6-Jan-2001 18:28:05 EDT.

Yes, essentially they are. EarthLink does this quite a bit. UUNet doesn't want to deal with residential customers directly, and EarthLink's network only exists (excluding original MindSpring resources) in Southern California. It's what EarthLink does with it's telco DSL agreements excluding PacBell. They pay another provider to handle the connection, and provide the tech support/other customer services (like email, news, etc.) to you. They do the same thing for dial-up as well, they pay four other backbones to handle the actual dial-up connections. It works out well for both EarthLink and the company they are using to provide the physical connection, because they both get additional business. They aren't purely billing you as a reseller for UUNet though, because UUNet ONLY handles the internet connection itself (along with DNS, but that's just because it makes more sense for that), nothing else. You wouldn't want to be directly connected to EarthLink's network due to high latency, and UUNet has the resources to handle the connections directly in the first place, ELN doesn't, the fact that Telocity took on the old Flashcom customers directly is part of the reason those people are having so many problems.