It seems that without the Load Balancer, Surfing is smoother.

It seems that the Load balancer has been … ehem ehem… unplugged.

Its a Black Monday for TM Net. Whole Sarawak is under duress. So far, the recovery is only up to the following:

1. Malayisa Web Sites
2. Northern Exchange to Indochina
3. Northern Asia
4. Western Seaborne of Northern America Except Alaska
5. Mid-continental except Richmond
6. UK Part of UK

Confirmed outage of services
1. ICMP
2. IGMPS
3. UDP
4. TCP D. ACK Packets
5. All H.323 Packets

Confirmed nonworking web sites
1. Europe
2. Eastern Seaborne of North America
3. Australia & New Zealand
4. Belgium
5. India
6. The other part of Part of UK and Ireland,
7. South America
8. Africa
9. Middle East
10. Arab Peninsular
11. Kelana Jaya TM Net Data Center
12. Brickfields TM Net Data Center
13. CyberJaya TM Net Data Center
14. Antartica Station

Recovery work is still in progress

Someone from TM Net has informed me that the packet lost problem in Sarawak in under rectification. TM Net flown a team of experts from KL to Kuching this morning to fix the problem and they are still at some place called Tanjung something…

Anyway, I am waiting for the leads technical from the team to give me a call before I update on this blog again.

It seems that TM Net has lost a lot of DACK TCP Packets out there. All out going packets has reached the server but all DACK back from the server ended up in Never-Neverland with Peter Pan and Michael Jackson.

Dear TM Net Web Master,

Circumventing Spam is one thing, Claim to be circumventing spam and yet spamming your users is another. Please note my objection to your policies of circumventing spam as I have also received spam message from postmaster@tm.net.my

This email address has been on one of the top spam list on the global level and it is all coming from the one true source that is the actual postmaster@tm.net.my.

Enclosed herewith are 5 different email that was sent out by postmaster@tm.net.my, the ultimate spammer in Malaysia.

Yours Sincerely,

TM Net User.

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Postmaster wrote:

NOTICE ANNOUNCEMENT PROTECTING TM CUSTOMERS PERSONAL ACCOUNT DETAILS Our Valued Customers, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to caution you about scam emails in its email domain. Recently, we have noticed that a scam email claiming to be from the ‘TM Team’ has been sent to a number of our customers. These emails request for your email account information. Please DO NOT reply to this email or disclose your user name and password to anyone. We advise you to delete this scam email. Should we at TM need to contact you regarding your account, our customer service representatives will contact you directly. However, please note that we will not request for your password. In addition, all emails for TM will have our official company name and logo on the header. We assure you that we have taken immediate action to combat this issue. The perpetrators have been identified and we have blocked the circulation of this scam email via our anti-spam servers. For further enquiries and assistance, email us at: help@tm.com.my or contact TM at 100 and select ‘Internet Services’. Thank You Telekom Malaysia Berhad

TM Net has recently implemented the Password Authentication for SMTP. Many users are affected but I think TM Net does not have the courtesy to send out a notice or announcement on that sort as per specific. That an ISP

This ip is gonna burst. Maybe some technician or engineers from TM will look into this and fix the bloody problem before half of Sarawak is put into a Streamyx blackout.

                             My traceroute  [v0.72]

firewall (0.0.0.0)                                     Sun Jun 29 23:05:59 2008

Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit

                                       Packets               Pings

 Host                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev

 1. 192.168.0.1                       0.0%   108    1.0   1.0   0.9   2.2   0.1

 2. 219.93.218.177                   61.7%   108   52.8  22.3  16.1  56.8   8.8

 3. 219.93.218.141                    0.9%   108   75.8  18.7  14.7  89.3  11.8

 4. stm-odsy01-g0-1.tm.net.my         0.0%   108   15.2  16.4  14.5  36.2   3.3

 5. 219.94.12.21                      0.0%   108   32.1  33.5  30.7  73.9   5.4

 6. 203.106.128.5                     0.0%   108   36.6  38.0  35.9  54.6   3.0

    203.106.128.1

    203.106.128.69

    203.106.128.65

 7. 210.187.143.1                     0.0%   108   77.6  66.6  36.1 286.4  60.8

    210.187.142.1

 8. 210.187.141.37                    0.0%   108   37.7  51.7  36.4 458.5  58.5

    210.187.140.37

 9. ftp2.tm.net.my                    0.0%   107   37.7  38.5  36.2  55.9   3.1