[110212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marco)
Sun Dec 28 14:47:29 2008
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:47:23 -0800
From: marco <marco@zero11.com>
To: Steven King <sking@kingrst.com>
In-Reply-To: <4957D44A.7050005@kingrst.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Steven King wrote:
> We saw our bandwidth drop on our Level3 OC-48 to about half of what we
> were doing. We had to stop announcing our subnets to Level3 to get
> traffic to fail over properly throughout the world. We have a ticket
> open with Level3's NOC but have not received word on what happened or
> when to expect a resolution.
>
> Kevin Loch wrote:
>
>> marco wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> From what I heard, it was some some malfunction with a router in
>>>>
>>> Washington D.C. which terminated a 100GB bundle from Paris. It was
>>> carring about 50GB at the time of the failure.
>>>
>>> Not sure why routes within the US would be effected.
>>>
>> We connect to level3 in Ashburn/DC and saw traffic drop 50% in both
>> directions on that port. Testing showed 100% loss on 50% of the
>> flows. We shut that port down and now it won't come back up. I have
>> link but no arp for their IP. This is a new link that was turned
>> up in the past few weeks.
>>
>> - Kevin
>>
http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx shows that everything is back to
normal.
