[147569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time Warner Routing Issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Christopher Raaen)
Wed Dec 14 16:55:09 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAEV7mMFS7pAmxwB_SLNpYEq9m3OwAL792k0hpSx5Nse2H=uHtg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:54:13 -0500
From: Brian Christopher Raaen <mailing-lists@brianraaen.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thank you everyone for your assistance. Either having a tech spot my
post and make the change or me calling their bluff got them to fix it.
Thanks
---
Brian Raaen
Zcorum
Network Architect
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Brian Christopher Raaen
<mailing-lists@brianraaen.com> wrote:
> I have a Time Warner circuit that has been giving me issues and what thei=
r
> tech support has been telling me has not matched my previous experience
> with other backbones. =A0I have been trying to move the backbone on one s=
ite
> from a tier-3 provider to Time Warner. =A0Yesterday TW started advertisin=
g
> BGP for the ip blocks I have (68.68.176.0/22 in /24's) before they had th=
e
> circuit completed, so I had to make an emergency mid-day switch to move t=
o
> Time Warner. =A0Then yesterday night they stopped announcing my blocks so=
my
> site went down again and would still be completely down if we had not add=
ed
> NAT to the /30 point-to-point link. =A0They said the reason was they didn=
't
> have an LOA (which they had gotten back in October) and the ip blocks wer=
e
> not in the Level3 Radb list. =A0I could still see announcement to some pe=
ers
> (Shaw Cable in Canada) in a few looking glasses and BGP routers. =A0Howev=
er
> my network blocks were not showing for the larger US carriers like Qwest
> and AT&T. =A0One of their techs just called me back and said that Level3
> should be advertising it, but I still do not see the routes on the AT&T
> route server. =A0After noting that the tech said that it may take another=
day
> for BGP to "propagate" to other peers as they update their radb tables. =
=A0In
> my experience I've never seen anything where I had to wait for a route to
> propagate other than standard routing table updates which usually take le=
ss
> then an hour, and I'd really not expect this many problems between Tier1
> and Tier2 providers. =A0I need to know if this matches other's experience=
and
> wanting to know what other people were seeing with traceroutes and "show =
ip
> bgp". =A0The networks in question at the following 4 /24's
>
> 68.68.176.0/24
> 68.68.177.0/24
> 68.68.178.0/24
> 68.68.179.0/24
>
> the serial ip address is 72.43.84.254
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> ---
> Brian Raaen
> Zcorum
> Network Architect
