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GBLX (or other) issue continuing (?)

  • From: Rick Kunkel
  • Date: Wed Dec 13 17:03:13 2006

Hello folks,

I've gotten a couple of calls from people today complaining about a spike
in latency when using GBLX paths.  I saw a couple of posts asking about
potential GBLX issues yesterday.  (But they seemed to devolve into mild
flaming, and I couldn't glean any useful info from them, except that SOME
people seemed to be having SOME kind of problem.)

Anyhow, here's a trace someone sent....

1  207.244.155.177 (207.244.155.177)  1.152 ms  0.760 ms  0.593 ms
2  208.99.192.133 (208.99.192.133)  2.990 ms  3.208 ms  1.771 ms
3  204.8.32.85 (204.8.32.85)  3.243 ms  1.573 ms  2.444 ms
4  208.99.192.58 (208.99.192.58)  2.705 ms  2.580 ms  2.782 ms
5  ge-0-1-0.ar2.SEA1.gblx.net (64.215.184.161)  1.752 ms  2.782 ms  2.160 
ms
6  * * *
7  * * *
8  te-4-1.car4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.110.65)  37.129 ms  36.173 ms 
36.437 ms
9  * ae-32-56.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.190)  48.388 ms *
10  * ae-2.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.9)  43.981 ms  54.608 ms
11  ae-1-100.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.2)  49.057 ms *  48.426 ms
12  ae-3.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.58)  99.259 ms *  100.438 ms
13  ae-3.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.58)  89.555 ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.38)  99.875 ms *
14  * ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.38)  89.361 ms
ae-3.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.132.62)  89.568 ms15  * *
ae-1-100.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.132.42)  100.631 ms
16  * ae-7-7.car1.Boston1.Level3.net (4.69.132.241)  116.866 ms  120.512 
ms
17  ae-11-11.car2.Boston1.Level3.net (4.69.132.246)  118.752 ms  126.690 
ms
ae-7-7.car1.Boston1.Level3.net (4.69.132.241)  126.614 ms
18  unknown.Level3.net (63.211.176.18)  116.590 ms  116.168 ms  116.375 ms
19  unknown.Level3.net (63.211.176.18)  116.316 ms
ge5-1.aggr2.sbo.ma.rcn.net (207.172.15.152)  116.340 ms  120.395 ms

One somewhat savvy customer who had the forethought to commit to his
memory a general map of the routes to the last host has noticed that 
things changed over the last 2 hours.  He's now jumping from Seattle to 
LA, to San Jose, to Denver, to Chicago, and then to Boston before finally 
hitting his destination.  Perhaps this isn't even really a GBLX issue, but 
the customer seems to remember going straight from Seattle to somewhere 
east before, all via GBLX I presumably.

Anyhow, I'm just fishing for any other weirdness that people may have 
seen, as well as any news people might have heard about fiber cuts, 
outages, etc.

FWIW, the wind in Seattle right now is outrageous.  Probably unrelated, 
but I figured I'd throw it out there....

Thanks,

Rick Kunkel