[174186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time Warner outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Garrett)
Thu Aug 28 13:49:01 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Chris Garrett <chris@aperturefiber.com>
In-Reply-To: <23144097.10213.1409245073995.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:37:11 -0500
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Based on the link that Wes shared, sounds like someone made a BGP boo =
boo.=20
Not that I routed damn near the whole internet down a customers DS3 or =
anything once, but I can see how it could happen and then propagate out =
of control before it was caught.=20
On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Naslund" <SNaslund@medline.com>
>=20
>> I don=92t buy that excuse either. If Level 3 is doing fiber =
maintenance
>> on any route and takes down your entire network, then you have a
>> pretty poor backbone design. It is not Level 3s fault if you design
>> your network such that a single route loss causes a huge outage.
>=20
> Does the T-Bone run over L3? I thought it was either owned or =
dark-leased
> fiber and their own routers...
>=20
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --=20
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