[52900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AMS-IX problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Oct 23 07:12:24 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:11:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <016001c27a80$a379b460$6890a8c0@nipper.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
> > There seem to be large scale problems at the AMS-IX. BGP sessions with
> > peers keep oscillating. Since their own addresses keep jumping all over
> > the place, it is not possible to reach anyone over the AMS-IX tech list.
> > I have disabled all AMS-IX peerings for the networks I manage, and I
> > suggest everyone who is present there looks in to doing the same.
> According to Henk Steenman (CTO AMS-IX) everything is back to normal operations. AMS-IX is still investigating what happened.
I wouldn't call having to disable one link in the ring between the four
locations because spanning tree wouldn't converge otherwise "back to
normal", but yes, the AMS-IX is back to working order, as the large
number of backlogged "we are experiencing an outage" messages on the
AMS-IX mailinglist that just came in indicate...
It's very interesting to see the traffic stats at
http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html Usually, incoming and outgoing
traffic is the same. But during this problem, much more traffic went out
than came in.
Iljitsch van Beijnum
