CenturyLink Outage?

Tue May 7 19:28:56 UTC 2013

Need to pay their bills on time? ;)

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From: Jonathan Rogers <quantumfoam at gmail.com>
Date: 05/07/2013 12:28 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: CenturyLink Outage?

CenturyLink having an OUTAGE?!?

Well, I never!!

--JR @ Google-Atlanta

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> Widely discussed on outages at outages.org list (hint!) but for those not
> yet list members over there, 13 or more states in southeast US affected,
> reportedly routing / layer 3 issue, possibly BGP to outside but not clear.
>  Some service restorations discussed.
>
>
> George William Herbert
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 7, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Jason Lester <jlester at wcs.k12.va.us> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what is going on with the nationwide CenturyLink outage?
> > Their NOC recording says it is a BGP routing issue with their upstream
> > peers affecting Internet traffic and traffic between regions.  Our
> outside
> > connectivity with them has basically been down since about 4:00AM (EDT)
> > this morning.  The prefixes we were receiving from them were fluctuating
> > between a few hundred and a few thousand all morning.  We are getting the
> > full BGP table from them now (for about the last hour), but still not
> > seeing any incoming traffic.  Seems like a major issue since it has been
> > almost 9 hours now.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > --
> >
> > Jason Lester
> > Administrator for Instructional Technology
> > Washington County Public Schools
> > Tel: 276-739-3060
> > Fax: 276-628-1893
> > http://www.wcs.k12.va.us
>
>