Re: Sprint BGP Outage for 11/28 and 11/29/06

["Audie Onibala" <onibala () gmail com>]

On 12/1/06, Eric Gauthier <eric () roxanne org> wrote:

> Audie,
>
> > Sprint technician informed us that there was a power outage in the
> Baltimore
> > site on 11/28/06 between 2-3:00 PM EST.  During this outage, several our
> > clients could access our network.  This incident re-occured again the
> next
> > day between 1:45-4:15 PM.
>
> We peer with Sprint in Boston and saw our BGP tables from them drop by
> about
> 20k routes on Tuesday and 60k routes on Wednesday at those times.  We
> haven't
> asked Sprint about it, but something definitely happened on their as we
> didn't
> see equivalent drops from our other providers.
>
> Eric :)


My other ISP is Qwest, which have been experiencing problem also.  Here is
blog about Federal Reserve recent outages:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/


Audie