Re: AboveNet major backbone issues

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> > It appears that AboveNet is having major worldwide backbone issues at
> > the moment.  We were seeing high latency from the US to Europe, and now
> > some European routes are no longer being advertised to the US.
>
> it might be interesting to know how you determined this and what
> are "major worldwide backbone issues" in the sense of how they are
> defined and measured.

Maybe they told him. :)

They don't say exactly what's broken, but Above.net did send out a notice
 Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
 Subject: Network Issues US & Europe ~12:03 EDT June 12, 2004

I think someone was thinking faster than they were typing though.

 At approximately 12:03 EDT widespread networking
 issues. This is causing networking issues through
 out our network. We are now diagnosing the
 problem.  We do not know what caused the failure
 at this time.

Apparently networking issues are causing networking issues on their
network.  I hate it when that happens.

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