[97831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level(3) faux paux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Thu Jul 12 02:11:56 2007
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:08:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
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To: "Security Admin (NetSec)" <secadmin@netsecdesign.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote:
> I have noticed that Level(3) misconfigs/outages seem to happen more
> frequently than with most other Tier 1's. Am unsure whether or not this
maybe they have a larger change-rate? or more folks that notice problems
and complain here? (note that I don't know but suspect everyone has a
relatively close approximation of this figure at a certain place in the
network-size-tiering)
> show up more often with issues than say Sprint [AS1239]. Is their any
(cause they don't let Ted on routers anymore...)
> one (or any coporation) that keeps track of outages such as these?
> Would think it might be a good thing to know for proper mulit-homing
> relationships to minimize the type of outage that Yahoo faced...
Because someone 3 as-hops away sucking down your prefix and traffic is
your direct provider's problem how?
-Chris
