Any2 LAX

Fri Jun 11 17:27:07 UTC 2021

On 6/11/21 10:16 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 
>> Did Any2 LAX barf last night between about 1am and 8am Pacific time?
> 
> More like 00:00-7:45 (Pacific time).
> 
> Anyone know what broke, and why the IX was dead for nearly 8 hours?
> This is our second recent issue with "an Any2 IX", having dealt with an 
> IX partition event at Any2 Denver just a few weeks ago.
> 

What I saw was a lot of unreachable nexthops (I'm in LA2) on routes 
advertised through the route servers. Most of my direct BGP sessions 
were down, but a handful were still working including the route servers.

For example, I was getting routes for AS29791 from the route servers, 
but nexthop 206.72.211.106 was dead to me. Not to pick on Internap other 
than a mutual customer called me directly at 1am and wanted to know why 
things were down.

I killed the route server sessions and went back to sleep.

Feels like LA1 and LA2 got split, but however the route servers 
interconnect still worked, which was problematic.