On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote:
I have noticed that Level(3) misconfigs/outages seem to happen more frequently than with most other Tier 1's. Am unsure whether or not this
maybe they have a larger change-rate? or more folks that notice problems and complain here? (note that I don't know but suspect everyone has a relatively close approximation of this figure at a certain place in the network-size-tiering)
show up more often with issues than say Sprint [AS1239]. Is their any
(cause they don't let Ted on routers anymore...)
one (or any coporation) that keeps track of outages such as these? Would think it might be a good thing to know for proper mulit-homing relationships to minimize the type of outage that Yahoo faced...
Because someone 3 as-hops away sucking down your prefix and traffic is your direct provider's problem how? -Chris