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Chris, Thanks for the clarification. I also did more checking. Westcoast sites that use the Mae-West to reach other ISPs were indeed affected by this outage. The SSE problem has been reported to our vendor and it is being actively pursued. -- Enke > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:18:00 -0600 (MDT) > From: Chris Garner <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] (Enke Chen) > CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Enke, > > I'd like to point out that the message below was sent > to Westnet sites (Gordon Cook forwarded it to NANOG without taking > the context into consideration). From our perspective SprintLink > and MCI were in fact partitioned. My customers probably don't care > that other SprintLink sites could get to MCI customers (except in > the "gee this Internet thing is good for the world" sort of way). > > Last night about 7pm Mountain time we lost connectivitiy from > one of our monitoring stations to all our "SprintLink only" sites. This > monitoring station uses MCI as it's NSP. After doing some traces it > was pretty clear that MCI was blackholing traffic that came from the > Denver MCI POP headed to SprintLink sites. It was bouncing around > between MCI's SF nodes. The MCI NOC was in fact aware of the problem > and told me it was at escalation level 4. I was told this morning > by the MCI NOC that MCI had an "SSE hang on a border router" and that > a reset had fixed the problem. MCI ticket #2778. > > We regained connectivity at about 7:30pm, so it lasted just > under half an hour for us. > > I doubt the nanog list is the place for this though. > -- > > -Chris ([email protected]) > > > > >Hi, > >Currently MCI peers with Sprintlink at four places: Mae-East, > >Mae-West, New York NAP, and Chicago NAP, and these peers do > >backup each other. I just checked the peer status a few > >minutes ago. Here is what I found: > > > >interconnect up time > >Mae-East 6:06:45 (sheduled maintainence this morning) > >Mae-West 3d04 > >NY NAP 4d20 > >Chicago NAP 1w6d > > > >Clearly this data does not support the remark that a > >partition (total loss of peers) happened between MCI and > >Sprint yesterday evening. > > > > > >-- Enke > > > >>Anyone willing to say what happened? > >> > >>******************************************************************** > >>Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 > >>The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 > >>431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 > >>(609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 > >>Internet: [email protected] Corporate. Site Lic $650 > >>http://www.netaxs.com/~cook <- Subscription Info & COOK Report Index > >>******************************************************************** > > > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned (fwd) > >> > >>Forwarded message: > >>>From spot.Colorado.EDU!westnet-site-people-request Tue Oct 3 20:48:25 1995 > >>From: Chris Garner <[email protected]> > >>Message-Id: <[email protected]> > >>Subject: MCI and SprintLink are partitioned > >>To: [email protected] > >>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT) > >>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] > >>Content-Type: text > >>Content-Length: 289 > >> > >> > >> MCI and SprintLink are disconnected at the moment. MCI is > >>having a BGP problem with SprintLink. Currently the two networks > >>are partitioned. The problem started just after 7pm (Mountain time) > >>and is still occuring. > >> > >> > >> -Chris ([email protected]) > > > > >
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