Qwest outage In NY

Wed May 8 16:32:00 UTC 2002

Qwest has confirmed a DOS attach against two of their Juniper routers in the
NY POP.  I believe they had a UDP attack last week also (maybe on Saturday).
This time the DOS was a TCP attack on the 100Mb management interface on the
Juniper, leaving the box unable to pass packets, hence BGP stays up and a
full routing table but you cannot get anywhere.

Patrick

We saw the same issue on Saturday morning too (eastern time).  BGP sessions
to Qwest stayed up, but no data was moving across Qwest links.  Kind of
ugly.

Emails to Qwest seeking information on Saturday went unanswered.

Drew Linsalata
The Gotham Bus Company
Internet Server and Carrier Neutral Co-Location
http://www.gothambus.com

> From: Eric Gauthier <eric at roxanne.org>
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:43:57 -0400
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Qwest outage in NY
>
>
> Heya...
>
> Just found out that Qwest had an outage in one of their NY pops
> (jfk?) that disrupted access out of the Boston area for about
> 20 minutes.  The master ticket (I believe) is 566548.  Does anyone
> know what happened?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric :)
>