RE: Level3 problems

["Vikas Khanna (NextWeb)" <vkhanna () nextweb net>]

Just got off the phone with Level(3)... "Bonnie".  She's saying that they
are experiencing a large-scale routing problem (duh) and that they estimate
one more hour...



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
David Hubbard
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:11 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: RE: Level3 problems


Anyone get anything useful out of L3 yet?

Dave

From: John van Oppen (list account) [mailto:john-lists () vanoppen com] 
> I am getting fast busy signals on all my Washington based 
> level3 DID numbers at the moment...   
>
> A level3 full peer up here seems to only seek 68k routes... 
> not so good (thankfully that was not on my network).
>
>
> John :)
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Hubbard [mailto:dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com] 
> Gesendet: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:54 PM
> An: nanog () nanog org
> Betreff: RE: Level3 problems
>
>
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:28:23AM -0400, Richard A 
> Steenbergen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:26:06AM +0300, Emilian Ursu wrote:
> > > > I see its completely down and several others are starting
> > > > to have problems.
> > > > Anyone knows whats up ?
> > >
> > > I think everyone sees them completely down across the board 
> > (even mpls 
> > > transport services), been that way for about 30 mins now. :)
> >
> > All of Speakeasy outbound SF (and possible other locations) is down,
> > after being on hold with them, they are saying Level3 and 
> not further
> > information yet.
>
> I'm sure Cogent is getting a kick out of this. :-)
> Our L3 link started having serious issues at about 1:45 EST
> and we turned it off.  It seemed like an eternity for them
> to withdraw our routes from their peers though so they
> must be having some serious issues.  From home on Verizon
> FIOS they seem to be trying to push most of their traffic
> onto their Level 3 link in Atlanta which is making me
> unable to get to Google and a few other big sites.
>
> For those with L3 that want to call them, they have parent
> ticket 1429209 open on this issue but you won't get any info
> yet so I'd give them some time.
>
> Dave