MCI and SprintLink are partitioned (fwd)
Enke Chen
enke at mci.net
Wed Oct 4 18:49:12 UTC 1995
Chris,
Thanks for the clarification. I also did more checking.
Westcoast sites that use the Mae-West to reach other ISPs
were indeed affected by this outage. The SSE problem has been
reported to our vendor and it is being actively pursued.
-- Enke
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:18:00 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Chris Garner <cgarner at westnet.net>
> To: enke at mci.net (Enke Chen)
> CC: cook at cookreport.com, nanog at merit.edu, rw at mci.net
> Enke,
>
> I'd like to point out that the message below was sent
> to Westnet sites (Gordon Cook forwarded it to NANOG without taking
> the context into consideration). From our perspective SprintLink
> and MCI were in fact partitioned. My customers probably don't care
> that other SprintLink sites could get to MCI customers (except in
> the "gee this Internet thing is good for the world" sort of way).
>
> Last night about 7pm Mountain time we lost connectivitiy from
> one of our monitoring stations to all our "SprintLink only" sites. This
> monitoring station uses MCI as it's NSP. After doing some traces it
> was pretty clear that MCI was blackholing traffic that came from the
> Denver MCI POP headed to SprintLink sites. It was bouncing around
> between MCI's SF nodes. The MCI NOC was in fact aware of the problem
> and told me it was at escalation level 4. I was told this morning
> by the MCI NOC that MCI had an "SSE hang on a border router" and that
> a reset had fixed the problem. MCI ticket #2778.
>
> We regained connectivity at about 7:30pm, so it lasted just
> under half an hour for us.
>
> I doubt the nanog list is the place for this though.
> --
>
> -Chris (cgarner at westnet.net)
>
> >
> >Hi,
> >Currently MCI peers with Sprintlink at four places: Mae-East,
> >Mae-West, New York NAP, and Chicago NAP, and these peers do
> >backup each other. I just checked the peer status a few
> >minutes ago. Here is what I found:
> >
> >interconnect up time
> >Mae-East 6:06:45 (sheduled maintainence this morning)
> >Mae-West 3d04
> >NY NAP 4d20
> >Chicago NAP 1w6d
> >
> >Clearly this data does not support the remark that a
> >partition (total loss of peers) happened between MCI and
> >Sprint yesterday evening.
> >
> >
> >-- Enke
> >
> >>Anyone willing to say what happened?
> >>
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> >>---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>To: cook at cookreport.com
> >>Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned (fwd)
> >>
> >>Forwarded message:
> >>>From spot.Colorado.EDU!westnet-site-people-request Tue Oct 3 20:48:25 1995
> >>From: Chris Garner <cgarner at westnet.net>
> >>Message-Id: <199510040136.TAA06094 at dozer.colorado.edu>
> >>Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned
> >>To: westnet-site-people at westnet.net
> >>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT)
> >>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
> >>Content-Type: text
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> >>
> >>
> >> MCI and SprintLink are disconnected at the moment. MCI is
> >>having a BGP problem with SprintLink. Currently the two networks
> >>are partitioned. The problem started just after 7pm (Mountain time)
> >>and is still occuring.
> >>
> >>
> >> -Chris (cgarner at westnet.net)
> >
>
>
>
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