[92635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: West Coast Fiber Cut?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Chadwick)
Fri Sep 29 15:44:28 2006
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:37:19 -0700
From: Jeremy Chadwick <nanog@jdc.parodius.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:29:28PM -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber between Los Angeles and
> Washington that was supposed cut this morning? Our network is having
> gnarly problems through one of our providers and lesser ones through the
> other. Investigation went on for about 2 hours, whereupon i finally
> received an email from InterNAP talking about the problems starting at
> 9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut. My other provider has
> since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that most major transit
> providers were using it.
>
> Anyone heard anything else about this?
I haven't heard anything, although we don't use InterNAP for IP nor
Qwest for transit. Some of our eastern-bound IP traffic does head
south (from norcal to socal).
Do you have general timestamps of when the issue began? And two
hours to determine a cut is pretty absurd, if you ask me.
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