Re: Level 3 issues

[marco <marco () zero11 com>]

Steven King wrote:
> We saw our bandwidth drop on our Level3 OC-48 to about half of what we
> were doing. We had to stop announcing our subnets to Level3 to get
> traffic to fail over properly throughout the world. We have a ticket
> open with Level3's NOC but have not received word on what happened or
> when to expect a resolution.
>
> Kevin Loch wrote:
>   
> > marco wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > > From what I heard, it was some some malfunction with a router in
> > > >         
> > > Washington D.C. which terminated a 100GB bundle from Paris. It was
> > > carring about 50GB at the time of the failure.
> > >
> > > Not sure why routes within the US would be effected.
> > >       
> > We connect to level3 in Ashburn/DC and saw traffic drop 50% in both
> > directions on that port.  Testing showed 100% loss on 50% of the
> > flows.  We shut that port down and now it won't come back up.  I have
> > link but no arp for their IP.  This is a new link that was turned
> > up in the past few weeks.
> >
> > - Kevin
> >     
http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx shows that everything is back to
normal.