Cogent Problems?

Thu Apr 24 14:01:26 UTC 2003

Core routers down all over the backbone?
If anyone gets more details, I would be curious..

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Basil Kruglov [mailto:basil at cifnet.com]
>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:58 AM
>To: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: Re: Cogent Problems?
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>On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:39:11AM -0500, Basil Kruglov wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:20:55AM -0400, Brian S. Adelson wrote:
>> > 
>> > Cogent is stating they are aware of a network outage but they are
>> > unaware of duration or cause.  They have opened up master 
>TT: HD26558.
>> 
>> According to the person I just talk to, at 0837CST, the Core 
>router in
>> Chicago went down and it will be up momentarily...obviously 
>no sign of that
>> yet.
>
>It's up and passing packets now, I called again after 5m of 
>waiting and I've
>been told they're tracking it under HD26558; some of their 
>core routers went
>down all over the backbone, reason is still unknown.
>
>-Basil @ CIFNet
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