Operational: Wiltel Peering with MCI problems around D.C
Richard A Steenbergen
ras at e-gerbil.net
Thu Aug 18 20:13:27 UTC 2005
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:41:56PM -0400, Rich Emmings wrote:
>
> Anyone else (Wiltel customers especially) running into an operational issue
> around D.C. with partial connectivity
>
> It would seem MCI and Wiltel around D.C. have a 'informal' peering
> relationship and it's been errored right now for about 39 hours with a
> half-duplex route announcement. This has been effecting us with some loss
Informal peering relationship with a half duplex route announcement? Is
this some really obscure way of saying someone is leaking routes? Trust
me, there is no such thing as an "informal" peering relationship with MCI.
> of connectivity that's not there when we test same sites from other ISP
> clouds. Since it's informal, the help desk system at one or both ands may
> be having problem entering a ticket w/o an account number for the circuit.
I don't think so. Whether it is a peer or a transit relationship, nothing
that big between those parties is informal, undocumented, or unticketable.
Besides, in this case, WCG buys transit from MCI:
GigabitEthernet5-0.GW4.IAD8.ALTER.NET (157.130.30.245)
Name: wcgGigE-gw2.customer.alter.net
Address: 157.130.30.246
I will take your word tht something is broken though, as the traceroute
from Washington DC to www.mci.com via http://lookingglass.wcg.net is:
Tracing the route to global.mci.com (164.109.35.20)
1 so-0-0-0.edge2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.127.25) [AS 3356] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
2 * * *
3 * * *
...
> The usual channels are not producting results, and we're starting to get
> engineers on the lower end of the evoluationary food chain and finger
> pointing between wgc & mci that's not helping. Tried a pch, haven't heard
> yet.
Are you actually a customer of either one? If so, you ring them up and
stay on the phone until they address the problem. If not, take a stab at
it that WCG is the most interested party in getting it fixed, and try
nagging them some more. :)
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