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Re: Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Sat May 14 08:33:57 2005

Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:33:01 -0500
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: John van Oppen <john@vanoppen.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A431146554A0EA4A8C8842D94311BA6D224D91@server-ww.home.vanoppen.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


John van Oppen wrote:
> Anyone know anything about the Fiber cut that took Cogent's Seattle POP
> out of commission at about 6 PM (PST) today?   

AboveNet reported a fiber cut at 1852PDT which they believe to be in the 
Sacramento area.  Oddly enough, we saw a regular stream of ~5000 BGP 
update messages received every five minutes from 2230CDT to 0330CDT; 
I've asked if this was related to the fiber cut but haven't gotten a reply.

pt

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