Level3 funkiness

Wed Apr 15 20:00:58 UTC 2009

 destination unreachable on qwest out of St.Paul/Minneapolis.
Level3.com does work.

Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Oquendo [mailto:sil at infiltrated.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:36 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Level3 funkiness

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. 

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J. Oquendo
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