[outages] Sprint issue in Chicago?

[Frank Bulk]

Jim:

My posting about Sprint was from Friday.  Our upstream provider re-peered
with them Sunday at 1 am.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E] [mailto:jgoltz at mail.nih.gov] 
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:03 PM
To: 'Frank Bulk'; outages at outages.org
Subject: RE: [outages] Sprint issue in Chicago?

> 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.

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Jim Goltz <jgoltz at mail.nih.gov>
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