[Asterisk-Users] One SIP dead, all SIP dead -- sipmedia gone?

[Jay Milk]

Thanks for the wealth of information.  I knew they were off-air
DNS-wise, and this happened before a couple of times.  It's just bad
juju to have all your IPs in one block.

I don't think they were reselling, and I actually thought I had a pretty
good report with them -- just have been unable to get anyone on the
phone today.  Other than that, had several DIDs with them at $5/month,
and really haven't seen major issues other than DTMF not working -- but
then, they are SIP-only.  But between pricing and availability, they've
been the best provider out of all I tried (Vonage, Broadvoice,
voicepulse, iax.cc, ... )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco at ns.sol.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:34 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] One SIP dead, all SIP dead -- 
> sipmedia gone?
> 
> 
> > Currently (and since yesterday evening), 
> > sipmedia.com/myphonecompany.com is completely off the 
> radar.  No DNS 
> > entry found -- not even a name-server.  They've had this sort of 
> > massive failure before, but this is one of the longest for 
> all I can 
> > tell.  While that's a major problem, it also meant that until I 
> > commented out the register => sip.sipmedia.com statements, 
> my entire 
> > phonesystem was unavailable.
> > 
> [...]
> > 2. Is anyone else experiencing the same sipmedia outtage, 
> and/or has 
> > information on when they'll be back?  Tech support seems 
> affected, and 
> > other direct numbers I have go into voicemail.
> 
> Never heard of them.  The IP block which their 
> NS1.SIPMEDIA.COM is in is
> 
> NetRange:   66.128.0.0 - 66.128.15.255
> CIDR:       66.128.0.0/20
> NetName:    VITCOM-BLK
> NetHandle:  NET-66-128-0-0-1
> Parent:     NET-66-0-0-0-0
> NetType:    Direct Allocation
> NameServer: NS1.XCHANGETELE.COM
> NameServer: NS3.XCHANGETELE.COM
> Comment:    ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
> RegDate:    2001-06-05
> Updated:    2005-03-11
> 
> and this appears to be off the air.  We have no route listed 
> for this at this time.  The IP block for NS3.SIPMEDIA.COM 
> does have a route but traceroutes to deadness.
> 
> 10  POS7-0.GW12.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.29.197)
> 11  band-x-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.2.218)
> 12  * * *
> 13  * * *
> 
> NetRange:   69.1.236.0 - 69.1.237.255
> CIDR:       69.1.236.0/23
> NetName:    XCHANGETELE
> NetHandle:  NET-69-1-236-0-1
> Parent:     NET-69-1-224-0-1
> NetType:    Reassigned
> NameServer: NS1.XCHANGETELE.COM
> NameServer: NS3.XCHANGETELE.COM
> NameServer: NS4.XCHANGETELE.COM
> NameServer: NS5.XCHANGETELE.COM
> Comment:
> RegDate:    2004-02-24
> Updated:    2004-02-24
> 
> The parent block containing this one is advertised in BGP 
> right now, but I see a whole bunch of /24's covering this 
> block as well, and that route is not covered by a /24 or /23 
> announcement.  This looks like they are fully withdrawn at this time. 
> 
> I see a slew of withdrawls for that route around 10/21 23:42.
> 
> FixedOrbit sees them as singlehomed to Savvis, which isn't 
> having any problems that I'm aware of, other than this humorous bit:
> 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/357856p-304797c.html

:-)

I do notice that there seems to be no web site for www.xchangetele.com,
which suggests that possibly they tanked.  If your sipmedia.com was
reselling their services, then it is reasonable to think that they went
along for that ride.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -
http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me
one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing
Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in
the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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