[30250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint/AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Fri Jul 21 00:20:32 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:18:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: "David A. Snodgrass" <dave@thedatasource.net>
Cc: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, David A. Snodgrass wrote:
> The sprint outage list announced a lot of work being done in planned
> maintenance window.
> Aparrently sombody did an 'oops'.
>
> Purpose for maintenance: Network buildout/enhancement
>
> Maintenance date: 07/24/2000
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Maintenance start time: 00:01 AM EDT
> Estimated end time: 07:00 AM EDT
I got that notice and thought maybe that was it too, until I noticed the
date was a few days in the future...so I called an opened a ticket. First
person I talked to played dumb (ok...maybe they didn't have to play) and
said she knew of no backbone problems.
If I shut down my BGP session with Sprint, and 10 minutes later, they're
still propogating my route advertisements, and routing in loops, and not
routing at all in some cases, I think that's a problem. About an hour
later they seemed to have mostly stabilized, so I called back to tell
them, "don't call me, I'll call you" and was told that "something had
happened" that had forced them to reset a whole bunch of their routers.
The guy made it sound as if some customer/peer might have sent Sprint a
lot of routes they weren't supposed to have.
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