[outages] Sprint issue in Chicago?

[Seth Mattinen]

Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
>> It was reported to me that there's a BGP issue in Sprint's Chicago POP.
>> Can
>> anyone confirm or deny?  The issues affecting us started around 3:40 pm
>> CT.
> 
> This is fourth-hand, but this was posted on the NANOG list:
> 
>> Found out from an upstream provider that Sprint might be having some
>> major backbone issues right now.
> 
>> A number of their backbone routers are down.  This is third hand
>> information but would seem to make sense considering what we're seeing
>> here.  We dropped our sprint connection until this clears up but
>> reachability to any site that is on their network or uses them for
>> transit is iffy at best.
> 
> There are also reports they are advertising routes they don't have, possibly because of the backbone outage.
> 
> The Internet Health Report (http://www.internetpulse.net/) definitely sees some flakiness.
> 


Sprint's own performance map is showing 7% to 8% packet loss out of St. 
Louis.

https://www.sprint.net/performance/


~Seth