link between Sprint and Level3 Networks is down in Chicago

Thu Nov 9 23:49:53 UTC 2006

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
> I think that is what I meant. If there is no other connect anywhere, I
> understand it being dead (though, except for accounting, I don't
> understand why there is only one). If its not failing over to use one of
> the other connects, methinks some clever noc fellows could make that
> work temporarily whilest the troublesome routers are addressed betwixt them.

So, I'm not sure how sprint/l3 are connected, I imagine they have more
than one interconnect, in more than one region... It's possible something
'bad' happened and the paths didn't get removed :( It's hard to speculate
from 2 as-hops away :)

>
> Everyone has been using such clever figurative speech I decided to get a
> little flowery too.

haha :) pleae continue to be verbose and flowery.