Level3 funkiness

Wed Apr 15 19:45:47 UTC 2009

Can't get to level3.net 63.211.236.36 or www.level3.net 4.68.95.28 from
Pittsburgh either and I peer directly with level3 with a full BGP feed.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM, J. Oquendo <sil at infiltrated.net> wrote:

>
> Anyone else experience sporadic funkiness via
> Level3? I can't even reach the main website from who
> knows how many networks I've tried. Also friends
> and former colleagues have tried to reach the site
> to no avail.
>
> One of my machines on AT&T:
> # traceroute level3.net
> traceroute to level3.net (63.211.236.36), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>
>  4  cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.105.58)  11.285 ms  21.702 ms  21.477 ms
>  5  ggr2.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.131.141)  12.712 ms  10.194 ms  16.393
> ms
>  6  so-8-0-0.car3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.127.149)  9.975 ms  10.019 ms
>  10.833 ms
>  7  vlan79.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.16.126)  10.162 ms  10.189 ms
>  14.474 ms
>  8  ae-71-71.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.69)  15.763 ms  11.166 ms
>  9.725 ms
>  9  ae-3-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.93)  16.139 ms  30.616 ms
>  16.275 ms
> 10  ae-64-64.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.178)  15.684 ms
> ae-74-74.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.182)  21.870 ms
> ae-84-84.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.186)  28.729 ms
> 11  ae-92-92.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.157)  17.035 ms
> ae-62-62.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.145)  17.041 ms
> ae-72-72.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.149)  21.940 ms
> 12  ae-2-2.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.69)  31.671 ms  42.407 ms
>  45.774 ms
> 13  ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.132.113)  31.922 ms  32.115 ms
>  38.135 ms
> 14  ae-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.61)  75.265 ms  67.528 ms
>  67.937 ms
> 15  ge-9-0.hsa1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.35)  62.587 ms !H
> ge-9-1.hsa1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.99)  62.543 ms !H
> ge-9-2.hsa1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.163)  75.797 ms !H
>
>
> (From Texas through Above.net)
> $ traceroute level3.net|tail -n 1
> traceroute to level3.net (63.211.236.36), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 11  ge-6-2.hsa1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.131)  21.473 ms !H *
> ge-6-0.hsa1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.68.107.3)  21.547 ms !H
>
> Confirmed it can't be reached from Travelers Ins, The
> Hartford, none of my connections. Anyone else seeing
> issues? I'm seeing drop off from clients going through
> their Atlanta interconnects with Charter and two other
> providers, which I can't make sense of. I DO KNOW they
> experienced some sort of issue with a TDM switch or so
> they said... Very broad statements: "We know teh
> interwebs are down please stand by"
>
> I know websites are one thing, but the chances of the
> website going down, a TDM switch being wacky and now
> clients traversing their networks complaining all at
> once seems a little out of the ordinary.
>
> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> J. Oquendo
> SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP
>
> "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to
> ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things
> differently." - Warren Buffett
>
> 227C 5D35 7DCB 0893 95AA  4771 1DCE 1FD1 5CCD 6B5E
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5CCD6B5E
>
>
>

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