Re: Massive AT&T outage?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

Good thing neither pizzahut.com or any other single-homed at&t  
customer injected an extra prefix into the table and raised everyone's  
cost by multi-homing! :)

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TTFN,
patrick

On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:53 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> The oddball aspect of this for me was that a friend was
> wondering why he couldn't reach the Pizza Hut online ordering
> site [quikorder.pizzahut.com] which is directly attached to
> AT&T:
>
> %tracert quikorder.pizzahut.com
>
> Tracing route to quikorder.pizzahut.com [129.41.62.29]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> [snip]
>
>  6    65 ms    66 ms    69 ms  tbr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.12.49]
>  7    61 ms    64 ms    63 ms  cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.19.1]
>  8    84 ms    64 ms    62 ms  cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.4.122]
>  9    62 ms    66 ms    62 ms  tbr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.17.210]
> 10    62 ms    66 ms    64 ms  gar1.chail.ip.att.net [12.123.4.65]
> 11    72 ms    64 ms    65 ms  12.119.137.58
> 12    73 ms    63 ms    66 ms  10.22.2.5
> 13    73 ms    64 ms    63 ms  129.41.62.29
>
> Trace complete.
>
> It seems to have crapped out earlier somewhere [various places
> actually] in the AT&T routing infrastructure.
>
> Pizza ordering apparently is now available. ;-)
>
> - - ferg
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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