Looks like a routing issue to Ubisoft.com today

[#1]

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Target Name: lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com         IP: 216.98.48.56  Date/Time: 10/09/2013 12:41:15 to 10/09/2013 13:17:10 Hop Sent  Err   PL% Min Max Avg  Host Name / [IP] 1  1007  878  87.2   0   0   0  home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254] 2  1007    0   0.0  12 698  20  lo0-central10.ptw-ag02.plus.net [195.166.128.196] 3  1007    0   0.0  12  97  12  link-b-central10.ptw-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.150] 4  1007    0   0.0  12  87  14  250.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.250] 5  1007    0   0.0  12 100  17  ae1.pcl-cr02.plus.net [195.166.129.3] 6  1007    0   0.0  12 109  16  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6] 7  1007    0   0.0  12  86  15  xe-11-2-0.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.213] 8  1007    3   0.3  19  38  19 ae-3-3.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.86] 9  1007    3   0.3  19  32  19  ae-61-61.csw1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.78] 10  1007    3   0.3  19  86  20  [4.69.168.8] 11  1007    0   0.0  19  79  21  ix-20-0.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.65] 12  1007    0   0.0  99 177 101  if-2-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.18] 13  1007    1   0.1  98 173 101  if-3-6.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.85] 14  1007    3   0.3  99 202 102  if-1-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.122] 15  1007    0   0.0  99 150 101  if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13] 16  1006    3   0.3  99 153 102  if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30] 17  1006    0   0.0  99 153 101  if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89] 18  1006    3   0.3  99 162 101  if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6] 19  1006 1006 100.0   0   0   0   [-] Destination not reached in 35 hops

The offending borked routing is highlighted  London>>>>>Paris Back to London before being routed incorrectly via Paris  again  
Normal routing is London level 3 onto AS6453.net London >>New York>>> Montreal in around 90ms currently 99ms with 20ms spikes
It has done this before, But i do know that it doesn't affect all ISP's ,   Not good if you have a ubisoft game  that is reliant on the Ubi server in Canada for authentication, and online play
This got changed at 6am today, at the same time there was what appears to be other routing/peering changes going on across  the plusnet network Which is visible on almost every  ping monitor , so not unique to me

[#2]

Hi deathtrap,
I've just tried a few traces to the same domain and don't see the same issue so I think it's safe to assume that was some kind of temporary blip. Do keep an eye out for any other issues with that though.

[#3]

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Target Name: lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com         IP: 216.98.48.56  Date/Time: 10/09/2013 16:04:43 1    0 ms   *        0 ms  N/A     home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254] 2   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  lo0-central10.ptw-ag02.plus.net [195.166.128.196] 3   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  link-b-central10.ptw-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.150] 4   13 ms   12 ms   13 ms   13 ms  250.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.250] 5   20 ms   29 ms   13 ms   13 ms  ae1.pcl-cr02.plus.net [195.166.129.3] 6   24 ms   41 ms   13 ms   13 ms  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6] 7   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  xe-11-2-0.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.213] 8   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms  ae-3-3.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.86] 9   20 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms  ae-61-61.csw1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.78] 10   20 ms   19 ms   20 ms   33 ms  [4.69.168.8] 11   20 ms   23 ms   20 ms   20 ms  ix-20-0.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.65] 12  101 ms  100 ms  123 ms  100 ms  if-2-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.18] 13   97 ms  123 ms   98 ms   98 ms  if-3-6.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.85] 14   99 ms   99 ms   99 ms   99 ms  if-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.1] 15   97 ms  100 ms   97 ms  103 ms  if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13] 16   98 ms   98 ms  116 ms   98 ms  if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30] 17   97 ms  103 ms   97 ms   98 ms  if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89] 18   98 ms   97 ms   97 ms   97 ms  if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6] 19   *       *       *       *       [-] Destination not reached in 35 hops

A tracert for me to that IP  216.98.48.56 & host name lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com Is still getting routed  london paris london , when it should not be , other ubisoft.com IP's may take a different route, but the ubisoft game i have uses that  IP ending with 56  so will make online play more problematic

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Target Name: lb-onl-vh-wspub01.ubisoft.com         IP: 216.98.48.133  Date/Time: 10/09/2013 16:09:50 to 10/09/2013 16:10:30 1    0 ms   *        0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms  N/A     home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254] 2   15 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   35 ms   13 ms  N/A     lo0-central10.ptw-ag02.plus.net [195.166.128.196] 3   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  N/A     link-a-central10.ptw-gw01.plus.net [212.159.2.148] 4   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   12 ms  N/A     248.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.248] 5   17 ms   12 ms  163 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  N/A     te-4-2.car5.London1.Level3.net [217.163.45.249] 6   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   15 ms   12 ms   14 ms  N/A     ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.120] 7   13 ms   13 ms   12 ms   13 ms   47 ms   13 ms  N/A     ae-225-3601.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.146] 8   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms   13 ms  N/A     Vlan533.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.83.101] 9   93 ms   92 ms   93 ms   93 ms   93 ms   93 ms  N/A     if-17-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.129] 10  100 ms  124 ms   91 ms   91 ms   91 ms   97 ms  N/A     if-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.1] 11   91 ms   93 ms   92 ms   91 ms   91 ms   91 ms  N/A     if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13] 12   91 ms   91 ms   92 ms  109 ms   91 ms   92 ms  N/A     if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30] 13   91 ms   91 ms   99 ms   91 ms   91 ms   91 ms  N/A     if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89] 14   91 ms   91 ms   92 ms   91 ms   91 ms   91 ms  N/A     if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6] Destination not reached in 35 hops

Is routed correctly  no Paris hops

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Target Name: ubisoft.com         IP: 216.98.48.40  Date/Time: 10/09/2013 16:13:05 1    0 ms    0 ms  home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254] 2   15 ms   13 ms  lo0-central10.ptw-ag02.plus.net [195.166.128.196] 3   13 ms   13 ms  link-b-central10.ptw-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.150] 4   13 ms   13 ms  250.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.250] 5   44 ms   42 ms  ae1.pcl-cr02.plus.net [195.166.129.3] 6   13 ms   13 ms  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6] 7   13 ms   13 ms  xe-11-1-0.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.209] 8   20 ms   19 ms  ae-3-3.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.86] 9   20 ms   19 ms  ae-71-71.csw2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.82] 10   20 ms   20 ms  [4.69.168.72] 11   20 ms   20 ms  ix-20-0.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.65] 12   99 ms   99 ms  if-12-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.69] 13  109 ms   98 ms  if-5-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.1] 14   99 ms   99 ms  if-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.1] 15   97 ms   97 ms  if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13] 16  100 ms  122 ms  if-2-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.226.13] 17   98 ms   98 ms  if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89] 18  124 ms  100 ms  if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6] Destination not reached in 35 hops

Even Tracert's to ubisoft.com  216.98.48.40   Go via Paris for me  as said there was some network wide routing/peering changes made at around 6am which resulted in this ,

[#4]

My tracert is a little different but still goes London - Paris - London.

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tracert lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com Tracing route to lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com [216.98.48.56] over a maximum of 30 hops:   1    59 ms    99 ms    99 ms  192.168.1.254   2    23 ms    16 ms    22 ms  lo0-central10.pcl-ag07.plus.net [195.166.xx.xx]   3    24 ms    15 ms    16 ms  link-a-central10.pcl-gw01.plus.net [212.159.2.184]   4    16 ms    16 ms    19 ms  216.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.216]   5    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  xe-11-2-0.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.213]   6    26 ms    24 ms    23 ms  ae-3-3.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.86]   7    23 ms    23 ms    22 ms  ae-61-61.csw1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.78]   8    22 ms    22 ms    21 ms  4.69.168.8   9  105 ms    22 ms    23 ms  ix-20-0.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.65] 10  156 ms  104 ms  108 ms  if-12-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.69] 11  169 ms  103 ms  101 ms  if-5-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.1] 12  317 ms  103 ms  127 ms  if-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.1] 13  104 ms  104 ms  103 ms  if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13] 14  317 ms  101 ms  100 ms  if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30] 15  153 ms  101 ms  102 ms  if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89] 16  141 ms  101 ms  110 ms  if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6] 17    *        *    66.198.96.18  reports: Destination net unreachable.

Checking with http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com the destination is down from there too.

[#5]

The ubisoft server farm  in Canada it set not to respond to icmp as they got d dossed sometime ago  So their servers are probably up , The issue is the cack handed way the routing has been changed  going via Paris , let alone going to Paris and back to London before routing back to Paris and then to NewYork Have Plusnet adopted similar peering policies to the woeful Telefonica uk /o2 ? as routing like this was all to common with them
jim:quote

[#6]

Hi
We receive routes from upstream providers, how they route traffic in their network isn't anything we can easily change.  With this you can see we pass it off to Level3, its after that you are seeing issues.  The route for this prefix has been in our table for over 5 days:

216.98.48.0/20     *[BGP/170] 5d 17:22:31, MED 0, localpref 40, from 4.68.2.7

The only work done this morning that I know of was a software upgrade on a router that we don't receive routes for this prefix on (or at least not prefered routes).

[#7]

216.98.48.0/20 The IP  originally made reference too  216.98.48.56 is outside that block of IP's 0/20  and i can assure you that the London Paris x2  was not present until 6 am yesterday morning, also  the routing to BBC.co uk and .net.uk was changed as well ,
But in any case ,they must have some contract with Plusnet ? As an ISP you surely can complain about the bad links , they are assigning ?  for the last week or so AS6453.net links have been displaying the all too familiar congestion hump between 1am -3am 

[#8]

Hi
216.98.48.0/20 is a range of 4096 addresses up to 216.98.63.255.  Looking at your original traceroute and the Level3 looking glass service it seems as though they have two peering points with AS6453.  One routes via Paris the other doesn't which seems to be where your right and wrong are coming from.  The problem here may not even be with Level3 if they are just receiving upstream prefixes from AS6453.

[#9]

Whilst i appreciate what you are saying  RE level3  ect,But that does not answer why it changed from going from level3 in london to AS6453. in london and then to NYork  At 6am when routing to the BBC and thinkbroadband also changed  and this shows on the ping monitor
To me plusnet routing  or something else within plusnets control was changed at 6am as a result of  what ever was done to the core router at that time,  as said other isp's that peer with level3 aren't seeing this Paris and back routing  and if 216.98.48.133 can be routed correctly  then so can 216.98.48.56
As the 3 Tracert's using level3's looking glass web site shows 2 routed correctly http://lookingglass.level3.net/traceroute/lg_tr_output.php  So it must be that the endpoint plusnet use got changed
I can't stress enough the maintenance  performed  has caused this , probably it was a side effect, but never the less i feel it's within plusnets control , not level 3 or any other 3rd party
Also my tracert to  216.98.48.133   leaves plusnet via  248.core.access.plus.net where as 216.98.48.56 leaves plusnet only after  transiting ae1.pcl-cr02.plus.net and ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net which then finds this longer route  via level 3 , so please change this to the same route as 216.98.48.133 takes . back how it was
Another observation  several tracert's pass through ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net to get to outside destinations  would seem to be the correct way to route my traffic as im on ptw ag02 gateway,  the problematic  IP is being routed to PLC core routers   adding 2 internal hops and IMO could be the reason for this
And if  you can't or won't change internal routing, then you should perhaps give level3 a call and make them aware of the London paris london fault

[#10]

Just a small update on the issue ,which still persists, i have after several attempts of hopping Gateways ,yesterday evening to try and find a gateway that both my downstream and upstream throughput  where less affected by the usual peak time slow downs , Which IMO could be signs of congestion ,as i get line speed more or less at all other times of the day , Oh and hopping gateways made improvement infact one i hopped onto briefly gave even lower throughput, as well as the routing that takes the scenic route x2
and see if all gateways routed traffic to the ubisoft.com IP the same , which they don't

Target Name: lb-lsg-prod.ubisoft.com
         IP: 216.98.48.56
  Date/Time: 12/09/2013 17:45:26 to 12/09/2013 18:37:49
Hop Sent  Err   PL% Min Max Avg  Host Name / [IP]
 1  1007  580  57.6   0   1   0  home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
 2  1007    0   0.0  12 671  20  [195.166.128.184]
 3  1007    0   0.0  12 127  12  link-b-central10.pcl-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.170]
 4  1007    0   0.0  12 132  13  202.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.202]
 5  1007    0   0.0  12  77  15  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6]
 6  1007    0   0.0  12 141  14  ae1.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.0]
 7  1007   16   1.6  12 228  37  [217.163.45.181]
 8  1007    0   0.0  12  32  13  ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.120]
 9   983    0   0.0  12  78  14  ae-226-3602.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.150]
10  1006    0   0.0  12  62  13  Vlan533.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.83.101]
11  1006   54   5.4  92 149  95  if-17-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.129]
12  1006    1   0.1  91 153  93  if-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.1]
13  1006    1   0.1  89 159  93  if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13]
14  1006    0   0.0  90 162  92  if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30]
15  1006    0   0.0  89 169  92  if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89]
16  1006    0   0.0  89 181  92  if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6]
17  1006 1006 100.0   0   0   0   [-]

Destination not reached in 35 hops

No London >>>Paris<<<London>>>>NewYork But routing to

Target Name: steampowered.com
         IP: 208.64.202.68
  Date/Time: 12/09/2013 17:27:54 to 12/09/2013 18:40:52
Hop Sent Err  PL% Min Max Avg  Host Name / [IP]
 1  1007 487 48.4   0   1   0  home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
 2  1007   0  0.0  12 377  21  lo0-central10.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.184]
 3  1007   0  0.0  12  44  12  link-b-central10.pcl-gw02.plus.net [212.159.2.170]
 4  1007   0  0.0  12 101  13  202.core.access.plus.net [212.159.0.202]
 5  1007   0  0.0  12 113  15  ae2.pcl-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.6]
 6  1007   0  0.0  12  69  14  xe-11-2-0.edge3.London2.Level3.net [212.187.201.213]
 7  1007   2  0.2 157 178 158  ae-3-3.ebr1.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.141.86]
 8  1007   0  0.0 157 227 157  ae-71-71.csw2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.82]
 9  1007   0  0.0 156 176 156  ae-72-72.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.161.97]
10  1007   2  0.2 157 190 157  ae-44-44.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.137.62]
11  1007   1  0.1 157 194 158  [4.69.202.62]
12  1007   0  0.0 157 240 157  ae-6-6.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.148.146]
13  1007   0  0.0 156 177 157  ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.132.113]
14  1007   0  0.0 155 213 156  ae-3-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.61]
15  1007   0  0.0 157 175 158  ae-2-2.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.69.132.53]
16  1007   3  0.3 158 225 161  ae-2-52.edge1.Seattle3.Level3.net [4.69.147.170]
17  1007   4  0.4 157 203 158  CENTURYTEL.edge1.Seattle3.Level3.net [4.59.232.74]
18  1007   2  0.2 157 266 159  [205.196.6.33]
19  1007   3  0.3 158 178 158  fw01-core.tuk.valve.net [208.64.202.21]
20  1007   1  0.1 158 181 158  208-64-202-68.valve.net [208.64.202.68]

Is As is the other ubisoft.com IP i made reference to, this is from PCL-ag03