They told me it was a fiber cut and it was down a half hour because the network was performing "reconvergence". Could it possibly take that long (about 1/2 hour by my count) to reconverge? Michael -----Original Message----- From: Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr [mailto:gwen@reptiles.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:20 PM To: Mohamed Hirse Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Global Crossing Network Problem. Their NOC says that there's a fibre cut. On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Mohamed Hirse wrote:

Can someone from Global crossing help explain this problem. There seems to be some sort of internal network problem. Traceroutes attached. This affecting many of GBLX customers.

Thanks Mohamed

route-server.cerf.net>traceroute www.juniper.net

Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.juniper.net (207.17.137.30)

1 fe8-0-0.san-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.38.225) [AS 1740] 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 fe0-0-0.san-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.102) [AS 1740] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 3 so2-1-2-155M.san-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.181) [AS 1740] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 4 pos3-0-622M.lax-bb5.cerf.net (134.24.29.14) [AS 1740] 4 msec 8 msec 4 msec 5 pos5-0-622M.lax-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.33.169) [AS 1740] 4 msec 8 msec 4 msec 6 pos6-0-622M.sfo-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.233) [AS 1740] 72 msec 76 msec 72 msec 7 pos5-0-0-155M.sjc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.22) [AS 1740] 76 msec pos0-0-155M.sjc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.32.90) [AS 1740] 72 msec pos5-0-0-155M.sjc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.22) [AS 1740] 72 msec 8 * * * 9 pos4-0-2488M.cr1.SNV3.gblx.net (208.50.169.74) [AS 3549] !H !H !H route-server.cerf.net>traceroute www.juniper.net

Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.juniper.net (207.17.137.30)

1 fe8-0-0.san-bb1.cerf.net (134.24.38.225) [AS 1740] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 fe0-0-0.san-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.102) [AS 1740] 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 3 so2-1-2-155M.san-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.29.181) [AS 1740] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 4 pos3-0-622M.lax-bb5.cerf.net (134.24.29.14) [AS 1740] 4 msec 8 msec 4 msec 5 pos5-0-622M.lax-bb4.cerf.net (134.24.33.169) [AS 1740] 8 msec 4 msec 8 msec 6 pos6-0-622M.sfo-bb3.cerf.net (134.24.29.233) [AS 1740] 72 msec 72 msec 72 msec 7 pos5-0-0-155M.sjc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.29.22) [AS 1740] 76 msec pos0-0-155M.sjc-bb2.cerf.net (134.24.32.90) [AS 1740] 76 msec 72 msec 8 * * * 9 pos4-0-2488M.cr1.SNV3.gblx.net (208.50.169.74) [AS 3549] !H !H !H route-server.cerf.net>

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