Good afternoon,

we have a downstream customer originating a more specific /24 prefix, and when 
they do so, traffic sourced from that /24 prefix to at least a subset of akamai 
ranges (at minimum the 184.27.24.0/22 block at this time) are getting 
blackholed somewhere along the path either to or from, but i’m not sure how 
best to go about troubleshooting or getting assistance with diagnosing where 
the problem may be.

from a device in the offending IP block I cannot ping or curl to www.akamai.com 
<http://www.akamai.com/> that resolves to 184.27.25.72, however from an IP 
outside the /24 specific prefix but still in their supernet range I am able to 
ping and get an HTTP 301 redirect response.  Some other akamai prefixes like 
23.73.0.0/20 seem to work without issue from what I can tell thus far.  If the 
/24 prefix is removed, all works as expected via their covering announcement 
(which does return via their primary provider, as we are generally a backup 
path for their larger block).

Any guidance the community can share as to how to go about trying to resolve I 
would greatly appreciate — this is the first time i’ve had to trace down a 
[seemingly random] reachability issue like this.  Connectivity to other 
services seem ok from what I can gather so far, even to some other akamai 
ranges.  from looking glass perspective it looks like the route is being 
accepted properly by our upstreams and other large providers like NTT, etc.  I 
did send an email to n...@akamai.com <mailto:n...@akamai.com> but not sure that 
is the appropriate way to reach out for assistance or not, since we nor our 
downstream customer are direct customers or peers of theirs.

Thanks,

Will McLendon
wimcl...@gmail.com <mailto:wimcl...@gmail.com>


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