Jon Zeeff wrote:

Isn't this the provider that says that dual-homing to them (ie, not to another provider) should always be adequate?

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As a sprintlink customer I can say that today was from hell. Couldn't reach *any* of the root nameservers for about 2-3 hours, of course before > >I discovered it was a sprintlink problem I killed and restarted named

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loosing my cache :-( and things still aren't back to normal. NOC said

Yep this is sprintlink. Sprint has been having route flapping problems for the past 3 days. Their NOC and engineers have been unable to pinpoint it. The master ticket from customer maintenance 6554885 said the cause was IS-IS routing problems. thus that

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they were having major "route-flapping" problems, and were trying to determine the source of the problem. I hope they've figured it out.

You were lucky. Looking at my routing table shows the majority of the routes from sprintlink to be about 6 hours old. This is best I have seen in the past few days. Most of the time the routes from them have been less than 20 minutes old. Chris MacFarland CompuNet