Re: Level3 routing issues?

["matthew zeier" <matthew () velvet org>]

Internap has posted an alert noting widespread latency and packetloss
affecting all their pnaps.

Any SQL Server host at my facilily shows an enourmous traffic spike at the
times below.  We've begun filtering udp port 1434 in/out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Dills" <andy () xecu net>
To: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex () nac net>
Cc: "hc" <haesu () towardex com>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Level3 routing issues?


> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> > I dunno about that. But, I am seeing, in the last couple hours, all
kinds
> > of new traffic.
> >
> > like, customers who never get attacked or anything, all of a sudden:
http://mrtg.nac.net/switch9.oct.nac.net/3865/switch9.oct.nac.net-3865.html
> > We are seeing this on ports all across out network -- nearly 1/2 our
ports
> > are in delta alarm right now.
> >
> > Anyone else?
> >
> > I will dig more to look at the traffic.
>
> Interesting, at almost the exact same time (call it 12:30), qwest dropped
> all but 1000 routes through IAD...still trying to get somebody on the
> phone at their IP noc, not having much luck. Genuity seems fine at the
> moment...
>
> Any speculation yet? Kind of an odd coincidence of problems...
>
> Oh, just got through...fiber cut in DC?
>
> Andy
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