[162909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CenturyLink Outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue May 7 13:32:51 2013
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:26:10 -0700
To: Jason Lester <jlester@wcs.k12.va.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Widely discussed on outages@outages.org list (hint!) but for those not yet l=
ist members over there, 13 or more states in southeast US affected, reported=
ly routing / layer 3 issue, possibly BGP to outside but not clear. Some ser=
vice restorations discussed.
George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone
On May 7, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Jason Lester <jlester@wcs.k12.va.us> wrote:
> Does anyone know what is going on with the nationwide CenturyLink outage?
> Their NOC recording says it is a BGP routing issue with their upstream
> peers affecting Internet traffic and traffic between regions. Our outside=
> connectivity with them has basically been down since about 4:00AM (EDT)
> this morning. The prefixes we were receiving from them were fluctuating
> between a few hundred and a few thousand all morning. We are getting the
> full BGP table from them now (for about the last hour), but still not
> seeing any incoming traffic. Seems like a major issue since it has been
> almost 9 hours now.
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> Thanks,
> Jason
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> Jason Lester
> Administrator for Instructional Technology
> Washington County Public Schools
> Tel: 276-739-3060
> Fax: 276-628-1893
> http://www.wcs.k12.va.us
