SprintLink peering issue in Chicago?

Thu Nov 9 20:47:08 UTC 2006

At around 1345 Central it was brought to my attention that we had lost
access to a number of websites out on the 'net... Two big-name examples
are Oracle, which has our development team screaming for my blood.  The
other that's come to light as well is, of course, Yahoo... which means
the rest of the userbase hates me.  Traceroutes like the two below for
Oracle generally die after one of Sprint's routers or its peer with
Level3.  I've already opened a case with SprintLink's broadband group
and the tech I've spoken to said that there have been an influx of calls
about routing/website availability problems, but nothing had been
identified inside Sprint yet.  

Just curious if anybody else is seeing this sort of action.

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jolsen at mcp  [/export/home/jolsen]
$ traceroute www.oracle.com
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 10.2.2.230 @ ce0
traceroute to www.oracle.com (141.146.8.66), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  core2-vlan1.obt.devry.edu (10.2.2.1)  0.407 ms  0.278 ms  0.265 ms
 2  obtfw-virtual.obt.devry.edu (10.2.1.10)  1.413 ms  2.380 ms  2.400
ms
 3  * * 205.240.70.2 (205.240.70.2)  5.209 ms
 4  * * sl-gw32-chi-6-0-ts3.sprintlink.net (144.232.205.237)  10.738 ms
 5  * sl-bb21-chi-4-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.33)  14.616 ms  32.739
ms
 6  sl-bb20-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.1)  16.901 ms  33.400 ms
27.028 ms
 7  sl-st20-chi-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.219)  42.269 ms  6.190 ms
3.835 ms
 8  * 209.0.225.21 (209.0.225.21) 9.971 ms 148.152 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *

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root at opnvw1p  [/usr/local/sbin]
# ./tcptraceroute www.oracle.com 80
Selected device ge0, address 10.2.2.4 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to www.oracle.com (141.146.8.66) on TCP port 80 (http),
30 hops max
 1  10.2.2.1 (10.2.2.1)  0.289 ms  0.224 ms  0.208 ms
 2  10.2.1.10 (10.2.1.10)  1.547 ms  1.502 ms  1.218 ms
 3  205.240.70.2 (205.240.70.2)  2.555 ms  5.551 ms  6.408 ms
 4  sl-gw32-chi-6-0-ts3.sprintlink.net (144.232.205.237)  4.120 ms
8.185 ms  6.024 ms
 5  sl-bb21-chi-4-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.33)  5.470 ms  3.884 ms
6.889 ms 6  sl-bb20-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.1)  8.851 ms
7.624 ms  5.671 ms 7  sl-st20-chi-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.219)
7.913 ms  7.283 ms  7.427 ms
 8  209.0.225.21 (209.0.225.21)  4.730 ms  6.033 ms  7.925 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *