[outages] Verizon west coast outage?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:55:30PM -0500, Forestal, Andre Jr. wrote:
> When routers have problems, they are designed to report that they are
> sick. Internet traffic is rerouted to adjacent routers automatically and
> sent around the trouble spot. In this case, that didn't happen. The
> router went into a hung state and did not appear to the rest of the
> network as though it was having problems.

It appears BFD is a protocol foreign to Verizon.  And why didn't hold
timers expire on associated iBGP peers?  Questions, questions...

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