Public Looking Glass Notes

This is a version of our internal Looking Glass implementation which we're making available to the wider Internet community as a public service. It will let you view network routing information on five of our core routers:

• gw1.nrwknjmd.ispnet.net - 165 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ
• gw1.nycrnybb.ispnet.net - 7 Teleport Drive, Staten Island, NY
• gw2.nycrnybb.ispnet.net - 7 Teleport Drive, Staten Island, NY
• gw1.nycsnyoo.ispnet.net - 85 10th Ave, New York, NY
• gw2.nycsnyoo.ispnet.net - 85 10th Ave, New York, NY

The information available in this public version is limited to routing data. ISPnet customers have access to additional tools, including the full version of the Looking Glass. We hope you find this tool useful and informative. Feel free to send comments to terry@glaver.org.

• Only one query per router is allowed at any given time. This is to avoid resource deprivation on the Looking Glass host or the router. The Looking Glass will attempt to serialize queries. This may make it seem like "nothing is happening", but please be patient.
• The Looking Glass will ping a router prior to querying it to avoid trying to query routers which are down or otherwise inaccessible.
• Login failures can be intermittent or permanent, either due to the router being inaccessible from the Looking Glass machine, or authorization failure(s). Please contact us at the above address if you encounter recurring problems.
• Queries followed by <something> require an argument(s) in the text window below the query list. Some queries take optional arguments denoted by [something]. Multiple arguments should be separated by a space.
• Note that output from certain queries is cached by the server and may be slightly out of date. These queries will be noted as such in the output. This is limited to queries which could produce extensive output.
• Note that some queries have potential to produce great load on the router and produce lots of output, such as 'sh ip bgp' or 'sh ip bgp reg '^3561'. The Looking Glass attempts to deny such commands.
• Some queries will take some time to complete (for example, a traceroute through one or more non-responsive hosts). Output will be displayed as it is returned by the router. Please be patient.
• Internet Explorer 8 (and possibly other versions) does not honor the line-at-a-time output from traceroute. There may be pauses in the display or the display may never finish at all. If you experience this, we suggest trying Firefox or Google Chrome, both of which have been verified to not have this problem.
• ISPnet, Inc. reserves the right to modify, limit or discontinue access to this service at any time.