BGPD, here are some results, FYI, regarding the reachibility of my laptoy living in a CIDR-block of which the individual C net is not explicitly announced. The results below are a snapshot of this weekend and yesterday. Some pattern is visible. If you want to test the reachability of ejpc5.wind.surfnet.nl, please do so, I leave it on until 5:30 pm local time (4:30 pm UTC, or 11:30 am EST). --- Start of table NET ASN REGIONAL COUNTRY RESULT ------------ -------- -------------------- ------------- --------- 133.11.0.0 AS 372 NSN-AMES-AS JP Unreach 128.250.0.0 AS 372 NSN-AMES-AS AU Unreach 130.217.0.0 AS 372 NSN-AMES-AS NZ Unreach 128.171.0.0 AS 372 NSN-AMES-AS Hawaii, US Unreach 192.12.192.0 AS 137 GARR IT Reach (%) 130.59.0.0 AS 559 SWITCH CH Reach (*) 158.152.0.0 AS2529 Demon Internet Ltd UK Reach (&) 193.63.94.0 AS 786 JANET IP UK Reach (&) 193.1.193.0 AS1213 HEAnet IE Reach (#) 193.124.134.0 AS2683 RADIO-MSU Network RU Reach (^) 192.36.125.0 AS1653 SUNET SE Reach 130.43.0.0 AS 714 APPLE-ENGINEERING-AS US Reach 192.87.45.0 AS1104 NIKHEF-H NL Reach 147.32.1.0 AS2605 CESNET backbone B CZ Reach 130.206.0.0 AS 766 RedIRIS ES Reach (*) Path from mentioned network to laptoy is through Washington2.Dante.net and icm-dc-1-E0.icp.net. (%) Path from mentioned network to laptoy is through ESnet and NSFnet (San Francisco) and Washington2.Dante.net. (&) Path from mentioned network to laptoy is through ICM. (#) Path from mentioned network to laptoy is through Ebone (although a direct path through EMPB exists). (^) Between Hamburg and Amsterdam is a non-revealed path (all routers return "*" in the traceroute. --- End of table __ Erik-Jan.