On Sun, 25 May 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
3. Somebody was SYN-flooding the routers(???)
4. The culprit was inside the AGIS network
5. AGIS was doing some upgrades that went bad (again)
Sure would be nice if AGIS was still friendly with other backbones, so we could all help trace down the culprit (even if it's just a typo in a router config), make it public among the NANOG community, and make sure that it doesn't happen to anybody else.
Yesterday our connection to Agis went dead suddenly. We called up the Agis NOC and were told that their Washington router was being flood pinged. OK ... except that we connect in NY, not DC, and the NY router looked to be dead. So we waited a while and reported the problem again. This time we were told that "they" were putting in some GRFs and hadn't even bothered to tell the Agis NOC. The NOC couldn't tell us if they were doing a router replacement in New York. Several hours later the line came back up. Stayed up for a while, went dead again. After a while, it came back up. Sure would be nice if Agis was still friendly with their customers. Or just anyone. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015