[outages] Level 3 down in Atlanta

[Bill Wichers]

It's possible the faulty device was an aggregation router and only those
customers connected to it saw the outage. Redundancy within Level(3)'s
network would not have helped customers with only a single connection
off the affected device. At some point it becomes the customer's
responsibility to redundantly connect to their upstreams (as in buy two
connections on different aggregation routers :-).

 

I didn't see any L3 issues up here in Detroit, so whatever outage L3 had
was apparently contained within that one POP or region. No cascade
failures I can see...

 

  -Bill

 

> 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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