SprintLink peering issue in Chicago?

Thu Nov 9 20:59:05 UTC 2006

On 11/9/06, Olsen, Jason <jolsen at devry.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sprint has been made aware of the issue, as has Level3.

Matt

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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  * * *
>
> -- and --
>
> 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  * * *
>
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