[83610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational: Wiltel Peering with MCI problems around D.C
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Thu Aug 18 16:13:58 2005
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:13:27 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Rich Emmings <rich@nic.umass.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0508181444580.25462@troy>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:41:56PM -0400, Rich Emmings wrote:
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> Anyone else (Wiltel customers especially) running into an operational iss=
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> around D.C. with partial connectivity
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> It would seem MCI and Wiltel around D.C. have a 'informal' peering=20
> relationship and it's been errored right now for about 39 hours with a=20
> half-duplex route announcement. This has been effecting us with some los=
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Informal peering relationship with a half duplex route announcement? Is=20
this some really obscure way of saying someone is leaking routes? Trust=20
me, there is no such thing as an "informal" peering relationship with MCI.
> of connectivity that's not there when we test same sites from other ISP=
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> clouds. Since it's informal, the help desk system at one or both ands ma=
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> be having problem entering a ticket w/o an account number for the circuit.
I don't think so. Whether it is a peer or a transit relationship, nothing=
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that big between those parties is informal, undocumented, or unticketable.=
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Besides, in this case, WCG buys transit from MCI:
GigabitEthernet5-0.GW4.IAD8.ALTER.NET (157.130.30.245)
Name: wcgGigE-gw2.customer.alter.net
Address: 157.130.30.246
I will take your word tht something is broken though, as the traceroute=20
=66rom Washington DC to www.mci.com via http://lookingglass.wcg.net is:
Tracing the route to global.mci.com (164.109.35.20)
1 so-0-0-0.edge2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.127.25) [AS 3356] 0 msec 0 ms=
ec 0 msec
2 * * *=20
3 * * *
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> The usual channels are not producting results, and we're starting to get=
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> engineers on the lower end of the evoluationary food chain and finger=20
> pointing between wgc & mci that's not helping. Tried a pch, haven't hear=
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> yet.
Are you actually a customer of either one? If so, you ring them up and=20
stay on the phone until they address the problem. If not, take a stab at=20
it that WCG is the most interested party in getting it fixed, and try=20
nagging them some more. :)
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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