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Re: Yahoo network outage

  • From: Kai Schlichting
  • Date: Mon Feb 07 16:45:01 2000

At Monday 04:22 PM 2/7/00 , Declan McCullagh wrote:

>As much as I hate to derail a rollicking good Bob Allisat conversation, I was wondering whether anyone has some insight into what happened with Yahoo. The main site (although not all properties) has been offline since 10:30 am pt Monday.
>
>It doesn't *appear* to be Global Crossing's problem, though I can't be sure. GC is mum on the phone.
>
>-Declan
>
>

Yahoo seems to be down by itself, but GC (The former Exodus?) was majorly
hosed for a couple of hours today, at least when seen from UUnet. This
has cleared up since. The way it looked, they must have lost a larger
circuit and traffic was falling back onto something smaller.
I certainly heard about it from customers today.


traceroute to www.zagat.com (208.49.149.212) from XXXXXXXXXXXXX
[...]
  3  104.ATM3-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.138)  3.712 ms  3.145 ms  3.052 ms
  4  195.ATM8-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.145)  4.212 ms  5.174 ms  4.813 ms
  5  s5-0-1.ar2.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.150.129)  1122.873 ms  1073.231 ms  1101.993 ms
  6  pos3-1-155M.cr2.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.253.105)  1168.070 ms  1123.118 ms  1201.008 ms
  7  pos7-0-622M.wr2.NYC2.gblx.net (206.132.253.90)  1154.076 ms  1178.267 ms  1283.370 ms
  8  pos5-0-622M.cr1.LGA2.gblx.net (208.48.234.110)  1305.236 ms  1211.578 ms  1160.075 ms
  9  pos0-0-0-155M.hr1.LGA2.gblx.net (206.41.19.82)  1163.316 ms  1113.633 ms  1141.507 ms
10  208.49.149.212 (208.49.149.212)  1205.369 ms  1145.163 ms  1174.641 ms


traceroute to www.redhat.com (206.132.41.203) from XXXXXXXXXXXXX
[...]
  3  104.ATM3-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.138)  3.720 ms  5.132 ms  4.813 ms
  4  195.ATM11-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.153)  5.397 ms  5.801 ms  5.140 ms
  5  s5-0-1.ar2.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.150.129)  1431.172 ms  1367.087 ms *
  6  pos3-1-155M.cr1.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.253.97)  1422.397 ms  1414.411 ms  1436.914 ms
  7  pos4-0-622M.cr2.SNV2.gblx.net (206.132.254.58)  1447.231 ms  1435.575 ms  1513.114 ms
  8  pos12-0-0-155M.hr2.SNV2.gblx.net (206.132.151.70)  1436.062 ms  1471.972 ms  1484.755 m
s
  9  206.132.41.203 (206.132.41.203)  1488.684 ms *  1456.976 ms


traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute to www.yahoo.com (204.71.200.75) from XXXXXXXXXXXXX
[...]
  3  104.ATM1-0.XR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.130)  5.068 ms  4.354 ms  3.666 ms
  4  195.ATM11-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.153)  4.744 ms  7.307 ms  4.936 ms
  5  s5-0-1.ar2.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.150.129)  1394.909 ms  1411.402 ms  1440.205 ms
  6  pos3-1-155M.cr1.JFK.gblx.net (206.132.253.97)  1384.353 ms  1430.991 ms  1379.290 ms
  7  * * *
  8  * * *
  9  *^C