Nationwide Routing issues with Wiltel

Tue Jun 27 02:44:54 UTC 2006

Steve Sobol wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Vincent India wrote:
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>>Anyone experiencing problems with Wiltel Backbone, or know of any issues
>>with the Wiltel Backbone? I called their NOC and was told they are
>>experiencing a nationwide routing problem that they are working on but
>>couldn't get any further details?
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>I have a box sitting in a colo off a WCG circuit in Columbus, OH; 
>traceroutes from the west coast were dying a few hops short of the colo 
>facility, but I'm not a direct customer of WCG, so calling them for info 
>would have been pointless...
>
As a customer we were not able to get through to L3 on the phone.

Apparently prefix filtering wasn't working so well either given that AS27251 was 
managing to announce 38/8, 64/8 and 67/8 with L3 happily passing it along. 

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Mark Radabaugh

Amplex
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