L3 East cost maint / fiber 05FEB2012 maintenance

Tue Feb 5 15:51:22 UTC 2013

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Josh Reynolds wrote:

> I know a lot of you are out of the office right now, but does anybody have
> any info on what happened with L3 this morning? They went into a 5 hour
> maintenance window with expected downtime of about 30 minutes while they
> upgraded something like *40* of their "core routers" (their words), but
> also did this during some fiber work and completely cut off several of
> their east coast peers for the entirety of the 5 hour window.
>
> If anybody has any more info on this, on a NOC contact for them on the East
> Coast for future issues, you can hit me off off-list if you don't feel
> comfortable replying with that info here.
>
> Thanks, and I hope hope you guys are enjoying Orlando.

We're a Level3 customer in Orlando.  Our BGP sessions stayed up, but the 
number of routes received from Level3 fell to only a few tens of thousands 
at about 4:10am, and gradually returned to normal numbers by about 4:35am.

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