TATA problems?

Mon Nov 7 15:08:55 UTC 2011

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:00 -0500, Todd Snyder wrote:
> We seem to be having some problems with our tata links - first seen in EU
> about 45 minutes ago, now we're seeing problems in NA.  I'm focused on DNS,
> so I'm seeing a lot of timeouts/servfails, but our networking folks are
> talking about links dropping.
> 
> Anyone else seeing oddness on the NA Internet right now?
> 
> http://downrightnow.com/ confirms - something is up.

There are widespread issues across the Internet; certain versions of
Juniper firmware have core dumped after seeing a particular BGP 'UPDATE'
message. 

(That's the running theory at least).

It's affected multiple service providers, globally, not just those
connected to TATA.

Tom