UUNET instability? (fwd)

Thu Apr 25 15:57:55 UTC 2002

We have seen the same thing at 10:10am Eastern time and now at 11:45am.  In
fact, it's ongoing but we've not received any official explanation.  And as
always, www.noc.uu.net reports 'all is well'.

Kevin

>> Anyone else seeing routing instability through UUNET or have any more
>> details?  I saw a significant drop in my inbound and outbound traffic to
>> them around 10:00AM EDT.  UUNET has a prompt on their phone menus about
>> network instability, but didn't elaborate.  Their NOC doesn't have any
>> more details as of yet that they're passing along.
>
>I got similiar when I called in.  I also saw my circuit to them drop at
>7:07:42 PDT and a series of up/downs until 7:13 PDT (along with a few BGP
>resets).  NOC claims that that's due to backbone routing issues, which I had
>a hard time believing (at least the up/downs).  I escalated it and got a
>more knowledgable NOCite who re-iterated the instability issues and said
>he'd get back to me with more info.