[90564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Layer3 down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Jun 5 17:12:42 2006
In-Reply-To: <006901c688e2$3f2d5600$ab1ea8c0@dennis>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:11:57 -0400
To: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Dennis Dayman wrote:
>> From my IT department:
>
> "It seems that the internet is having issues at a Layer3
> Communications
> router, this normally would not be a problem but L3 runs some
> routing for
> the internet backbone. The techs at L3 are working on the problem
> and we do
> not have an eta as to when it will be back up, this situation is
> completely
> out of our control. You may experience short network outages or severe
> latency."
I would question any announcement from any department which doesn't
even know the name of the provider in question, more or less who
"runs some router for the internet backbone", whatever that is.
--
TTFN,
patrick
