[109475] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint Problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Nov 24 17:04:09 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:07:22 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <58E0B21FC367B24485855A1DBD96B0BB11C050F4@adc-prd-exch1.internal.accessdc.com>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Mills, Charles wrote:
> Found out from an upstream provider that Sprint might be having some
> major backbone issues right now.
>
> A number of their backbone routers are down. This is third hand
> information but would seem to make sense considering what we're seeing
> here. We dropped our sprint connection until this clears up but
> reachability to any site that is on their network or uses them for
> transit is iffy at best.
Our Sprint-connected transit provider just killed their BGP session to
Sprint, so things are more stable now, but access to any single-homed
Sprint sites is still DOA.
jms