[Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
> On 9/20/16 12:30 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>> In the same spirit, can some more guidance be issued to reduce the
>> noise of non-significant outages.   Is a single fiber cut really that
>> much of an impact in 2016, or is it really just a normal and expected
>> event that routing was designed to deal with?
>
>
> It was for Cogent in the Los Angeles market on Monday. Routing dealt with
> it, but it was pretty nasty for several hours.
>
> LAX -> Singapore -> Hong Kong -> Japan -> Seattle -> Phoenix is ugly, with
> major packet loss.

:-) I hate to say it, but that's the norm for those points, esp at peak times.

Maybe we need an outages-venting@ list, so at least regular problems
get logged.  :-)

-Jim P.