Re: Partial Outage with TW Telecom and CenturyLink

[Chris Gotstein <chris () uplogon com>]

CenturyLink is reporting core routing issues at this time.  Seeing the 
same issues with our DS-3, BGP stayed up, but traffic was not passing 
over the line.  Had to manually shutdown the interface to get traffic 
flowing over our other providers link.  What a mess.

On 4/24/2012 8:22 AM, Eric C. Miller wrote:
> Morning Everyone,
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> Yesterday between about 1900 and 2230 UTC, we had a partial drop with reaching various sites through TW Telecom from 
> our circuit in Orlando, FL. The unavailable sites included Facebook, Newegg, and Godaddy. The outage did not affect our 
> Atlanta TW Telecom. I confered with a colleague who manages a large customer in Apopka who said that they appeared not 
> to be affected. His circuit and ours loop to the same TW Telecom POP.
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> But even more Murphy than that, our Centurylink secondary circuit was having a routing loop issue at the same time, so while 
> our BGP routes were being advertised to world through Centurylink, the circuit was useless. Centurylink aknowledged the 
> existence of a bigger transport issue and said that we weren't the only customer affected.
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> Anybody else notice these issues or have any other insight?
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> Thanks!
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> Eric Miller

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