[91976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it my imagination or are countless operations impacted today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Sun Aug 27 07:39:18 2006
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:56:49 +0930
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060827041350.GG848@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:13:50 -0400
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:04:01AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Every where I go that uses MySql is hozed and I can not access the pages
> > >
> > > -Henry
> >
> > There seems to have been a big fault over there that is effecting us
> > here in .AU. According to our local upstream it's a GLX fault, and by
> > it's duration, it seems to have been a big one - I was told about it
> > more than 12 hours ago. Examples of sites customers are having trouble
> > accessing are :
>
> I think you're referring to an issue of blackholed packets between GX
> (3549) and Singtel (7473) in LA, for packets going to Optus (4804) (which
> for some reason appear to not be announced to normal Singtel peers). I
> don't think this was GX's fault actually, but I'm not sure if the issue
> extended beyond 3549->7473.
>
Optus's AS is 7474, or at least that is the AS we peer with, and then
that peers with 7473.
Our routes to those destinations had been up for days / weeks, so it
seemed to be a return path problem. A packet blackhole would explain it.
> At any rate this has nothing to do with MySQL faults or off-topic posts,
> and it is venturing dangerously close to actually talking about routing
> issues. We'd best change the subject to spam or botnets or something,
> before somebody gets the wrong idea about this list. :)
>
Maybe the routes were stored in a MySQL database, and they suffered
from a disk crash ?
:-)
Regards,
Mark.
--
"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
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