[68365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 issue in LA on 3/9 (was: AT&T Outage 01:25-01:50 AM EST)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Wed Mar 10 21:19:27 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:18:33 -0800
From: Will Yardley <william+nanog@hq.dreamhost.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:36:10AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:35, achen-nanog@micropixel.com wrote:
> > So at least I wasn't the only one that felt this. Did Level3 ever say
> > what blew up on their network?
> >
>
> Not yet.
>
> There was a small tremor at 18:59 followed by a major shock at 19:03.
> All my traffic rerouted then Level3 came back at 19:20. followed by a
> 'set community no-export' :)
The information I got was that it "...was caused by a BGP flap between
their border routers and core routers in the Los Angeles area."
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