I haven't yet seen this on NANOG - Apologies if it's been there 3 times by the time you read this or are one of those who doesn't like NANOG used for large scale outage notification.
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:44:11 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: jun@wolfox.gsl.net Originator: bulletin@gsl.net Sender: bulletin@gsl.net Precedence: bulk From: Jun (John) Wu <jun@wolfox.gsl.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <bulletin@gsl.net> Subject: internet currently is partially down X-Comment: Global IP Operational Bulletin MIME-Version: 1.0 Status: RO
There seems to be a major problem on the whole internet at this moment. A network called FLIX (AS7007) is having a major routing malfunctioning, and seems to have announced all major provider's blocks as more speficics. (probably because of a classic mistake of redistricute BGP into IGP and then IGP into BGP while the IGP does not know VLSM)
This has currently brought SprintLink and UUNET to non-operating status, perhaps other networks as well that I can not verify without connectivity. (at the time this email is sent). I just called FLIX and they have shut down al their peering sessions. The network should stablized in a few hours.
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