Level3 funkiness

Wed Apr 15 19:54:20 UTC 2009

In Chicago, traceroutes are dying in the same place (Denver). Peered out of
350 Cermak.

-brandon

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Charles Mills <w3yni1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>

-- 
Brandon Galbraith
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