[outages] Level 3 down in Atlanta

[Josh Luthman]

There are four routes into Atlanta, I believe.

Getting to Atlanta wasn't a problem.

Between the Atlanta hub and the customers was the problem.  Can't give every
customer two connections for the price of one =/

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
<outages at jdc.parodius.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Looks like it's all back up as of about 30 mins ago.
> >
> > Apparently either a core switch or router failed, which took down much of
> > their network in Atlanta, as well as Memphis and Nashville.
>
> Level 3 has a single router or switch handling packets at a major POP?
> I doubt this, but the outage is confirmation something bad happened.
>
> That said: where's the redundancy, and why didn't it kick in?
>
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