Verizon connectivity issues

Thu Aug 28 14:32:12 UTC 2014

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Bacon, Ricky (RJ)
<rj.bacon at verizon.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris!

howdy!

> @Ryan, XO was accurate, the peering connection between 6 and 7 is not

I had thought Ryan wasn't at XO but an XO customer... I could be
mistaken though.

congested, nor is it taking any sort of errors.
>
> I took a look.  The significant increase in rtt seems to happen between 7 and 8 (an Verizon LSP consisting of multiple physical routers).  That hop traverses the

yikes :) lsp's from XT -> LCR now, neat. it's also possible (and
likely) that the return path from VZ customer -> Ryan is across either
the NYC or DCA links to XO (nyc4 or dca6?)...  I agree that the ~65ms
cross-country seems on-par with SJC -> PHL on a good day though.

continental US from San Jose to Philadelphia, so you would expect
that, and I don't see anything going on in that path.  The end to end
rtt is pretty normal, and in any case, it shouldn't prevent your
customers from connecting.  I am not seeing any packet loss on that
path.  It's possible that whatever they saw was a transient issue and
may be over now.
>
> So, please double check with your customers to verify that they still have problems.  If so, continue to escalate the ticket.
>

hopefully ryan's having a better day today :)

> -- rj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:52 PM
> To: ryanruuska+nanog at gmail.com
> Cc: nanog list
> Subject: Re: Verizon connectivity issues
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ryan Ruuska <ryanruuska+nanog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We have heard from many of our customers in the Northeast region,
>> specifically PA, MD, and VA who have difficulty connecting to our
>> website
>
> there's probably vz customer folk on-list, maybe 'what should they test for you' would be nice? :)
>
>> (very slow loading times).  We have noticed that if our data center
>> provider specifically routes our outbound traffic over Hurricane
>> Electric rather than XO Communications, that connectivity is restored
>> to normal for our customers.  The HE path goes from Salt Lake City to
>> Denver where it is handed off to TeliaSonera, and they send it to
>> Chicago where it gets handed off to Verizon.  This works great and
>> generally has a ping response of 20-25ms less than the bad route as posted below from one of our servers:
>>
>> Tracing route to pool-108-52-xxx-xxx.phlapa.fios.verizon.net
>>  [108.52.xxx.xxx]
>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>>
>>   1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.xxx.xxx.xxx (Internal IP)
>>   2    <1 ms    10 ms    <1 ms  209-41-xxx-xxx.c7dc.com [209.41.xxx.xxx]
>>   3    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  e1-5.rt08.gp1.c7dc.com [192.41.0.97]
>>   4     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  ip65-46-51-113.z51-46-65.customer.algx.net
>>  [65.46.51.113]
>>   5    19 ms    18 ms    19 ms  vb1611.rar3.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net
>>  [216.156.0.5]
>>   6    21 ms    18 ms    18 ms  207.88.14.226.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.226]
>>   7    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  206.111.6.122.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.6.122]
>>  >>>> Verizon owned device with an XO IP address
>>   8    87 ms    86 ms    87 ms  b100.phlapa-lcr-22.verizon-gni.net
>> [130.81.209.187]
>>  >>>> Next hop goes from CA to PA, probably just hidden routing info
>>   9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>>  10    88 ms    89 ms    90 ms  pool-108-52-xxx-xxx.phlapa.fios.verizon.net
>>  [108.52.xxx.xxx]
>>
>> As you can see, XO sends this traffic from Salt Lake City to San Jose
>> where it is handed off to Verizon.  We've worked with XO and
>> determined that there are no connectivity issues along their path,
>> which seems to point to an issue within Verizon's network.  I have a
>> couple of tickets open with Verizon at the moment on behalf of some of
>> our customers, but we have had trouble breaking through Tier 1.
>>
>> Our first thought was saturation of the peering point, but XO states
>> that the link between hops 6 and 7 is using 5Gbps out of 20Gbps
>> capacity, and the latency on hop 7 (the Verizon owned device with an
>> XO IP) seems normal whenever we test.
>>
>> Any Verizon engineers out there willing to take a quick peek at this
>> route for any obvious issues?  It would be a lot easier for us if
>> Verizon provided Looking Glass servers, but alas...
>
> they have route data sent to routeviews at least...