On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote:

Level 3 experiencing widespread "unspecified routing issues" on the US east coast. Master ticket 1086844. Anyone have more specific information?

More, but not specific. We shut off our BGP session to them as lots of sites were unreachable through Level3. I'm waiting for a callback to say it might be safe to turn it back on. "backbone impairment" is pretty vague. Could be a fiber cut, crashed router, bad software upgrade, etc. Hopefully they know more about it than they're saying. Summary Level 3 is currently experiencing a backbone outage causing routing instability and packet loss. We are working to restore and will be sending hourly updates. Service Impact Statement Level 3 is currently experiencing a backbone impairment. Affected Locations Routing instability and packet loss are possible network wide, but concentrated on the eastern US. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________