UUnet West Coast glitch?

Sun Nov 3 18:08:05 UTC 2002

We just saw RTT times to a bunch of sites (yale, ucsb, cisco, yahoo, 
mci) all go up to 3 second RTT with lots of loss.

The one traceroute I did before it corrected itself showed long delays 
once traceroute entered UUnet - but could be the return path. (This was 
from an Internap colo site, so there is often assymetry.)

I saw the same delays out of another TimeWarner connected site...
Anyone else know what was going on?

trace www.mci.com
Translating "www.mci.com"...domain server (63.251.224.9) [OK]

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to mci.com (199.249.20.30)

   1 border5.fe5-3.expertcity-4.sfo.pnap.net (63.251.61.117) [AS 14743] 
4 msec 0
msec 4 msec
   2 core2.ge2-0-bbnet2.sfo.pnap.net (63.251.63.66) [AS 14743] 120 msec 
0 msec 0
msec
   3 gige4-0-233.ipcolo1.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net (63.211.143.17) [AS 
3356] 4 mse
c 8 msec *
   4 gigabitethernet4-2.core2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net (209.244.14.225) 
[AS 3356]
  4 msec 4 msec *
   5 100.ATM2-0.BR5.SAC1.ALTER.NET (166.90.50.134) [AS 3356] 2536 msec 
2536 msec
2532 msec
   6 0.so-2-1-0.XL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.226) [AS 701] 2676 msec