[101044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Haigh)
Tue Dec 4 17:37:54 2007
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:33:13 +1100
From: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
To: NANOG List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712041350010.2717@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:51:13PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html
>
> Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed
> that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's
> Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US.
> Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
This has hit us too. It's a major PITA and seems to have been handled pretty
badly by at least one T1 carrier. We've seen much of the net unreachable
due to flapping BGP sessions causing route dampening on a lot of address
space in Australia. Hopefully it'll be repaired soon!
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
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