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I discovered last night that Verizon Business (aka UUNET, MCI, alter.net, AS701) and Verizon proper (i.e. the Local Exchange Carrier here in Portland, AS19262) don’t appear to peer here.  That is a major shame since I am on Verizon FiOS and I can’t even access other businesses that use Verizon Business as their ISP here in Portland without bouncing of Seattle.

Check out this traceroute from my router on my FiOS connection to SilverStar Telecom who uses Verizon Business as one upstream:

plunger#traceroute www.silverstartelecom.com

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to www.silverstartelecom.com (12.111.189.3)

  1 L100.PTLDOR-VFTTP-01.verizon-gni.net (72.87.39.1) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
  2 P2-3.PTLDOR-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.32.164) 4 msec 4 msec 4 msec
  3 so-7-3-0-0.SEA01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.28.160) 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec
  4 0.so-7-1-0.XT1.SEA7.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.57) 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec
  5 0.so-6-2-0.XT1.POR3.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.233) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec
  6 POS6-0-0.GW9.POR3.ALTER.NET (152.63.104.249) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec
  7 IT-S-Star-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.177.118) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec
  8 sst-pit-6509-gi25-2-gsr12-gi60.silverstartelecom.com (66.206.80.21) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec
  9 www.silverstartelecom.com (12.111.189.3) 12 msec 16 msec 16 msec
plunger#

What a bummer.  I hope they rectify this situation soon!

-Eric