[160391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Feb 5 10:53:41 2013
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:51:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Josh Reynolds <esseph@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALKMwxkH4RsR-JtnnJFMMNXmb3Ld+N9914_YNMRYPKe2z8kcCg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Josh Reynolds wrote:
> I know a lot of you are out of the office right now, but does anybody have
> any info on what happened with L3 this morning? They went into a 5 hour
> maintenance window with expected downtime of about 30 minutes while they
> upgraded something like *40* of their "core routers" (their words), but
> also did this during some fiber work and completely cut off several of
> their east coast peers for the entirety of the 5 hour window.
>
> If anybody has any more info on this, on a NOC contact for them on the East
> Coast for future issues, you can hit me off off-list if you don't feel
> comfortable replying with that info here.
>
> Thanks, and I hope hope you guys are enjoying Orlando.
We're a Level3 customer in Orlando. Our BGP sessions stayed up, but the
number of routes received from Level3 fell to only a few tens of thousands
at about 4:10am, and gradually returned to normal numbers by about 4:35am.
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