Level3 must have changed a lot on East Coast...any info?

Fri Sep 19 16:49:51 UTC 2008

Does anyone have more info as to what Level3 changed last night during
their maintenace window?

Also I am going through either WashDC or Atlanta it seems, on most
traceroutes.

Here is a weird traceroute from this morning (note the first 4 traces):

traceroute cwlabs.com  (used as an example)

traceroute to cwlabs.com (208.113.235.175), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.132.85)  142.747 ms  105.051 ms
 106.480 ms
 2  ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.132.85)  54.189 ms  52.121 ms
55.308 ms
 3  ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.132.85)  52.709 ms  52.413 ms
53.878 ms
 4  ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.132.85)  54.447 ms  55.481 ms
50.730 ms
 5  ae-2.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.132.85)  55.489 ms  50.655 ms
54.116 ms
 6  ae-7.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.134.21)  75.441 ms  73.117 ms
69.460 ms
 7  ae-3.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.132.77)  99.071 ms  102.945
ms  109.537 ms
 8  ae-82-82.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.26)  109.883 ms
106.218 ms  108.255 ms
 9  ae-31-89.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.20.131)  98.933 ms
100.706 ms  97.177 ms
10  INTERNAP-NE.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.71.140.54)  97.548 ms
98.300 ms  97.674 ms
11  border20.po2-20g-bbnet2.lax.pnap.net (216.52.255.101)  102.012 ms
101.854 ms  98.889 ms
12  newdream-8.border20.lax.pnap.net (216.52.220.146)  97.053 ms  98.325
ms  97.547 ms
13  ip-66-33-201-66.dreamhost.com (66.33.201.66)  98.530 ms  101.100 ms
 98.141 ms
14  basic-dap.marvin.dreamhost.com (208.113.235.175)  97.895 ms  97.204
ms  97.296 ms

--Patrick