[outages] Level3 routing in DC area

[Robert Johnson]

It seems traffic attempting to pass through Level3's network in the
Washington, DC area is getting lost in the abyss. Here's a trace from
VZ residential FIOS to www.level3.com:

Tracing route to www.level3.com [4.68.95.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.3.254]
  2     7 ms     6 ms     6 ms  L100.BLTMMD-VFTTP-40.verizon-gni.net [96.244.79.
1]
  3    11 ms     8 ms     9 ms  G10-0-1-440.BLTMMD-LCR-04.verizon-gni.net [130.8
1.110.158]
  4    13 ms    11 ms    14 ms  so-2-0-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
28.82]
  5    21 ms    19 ms    19 ms  so-7-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.1
9.106]
  6    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms  0.ae2.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.34.73]
  7    16 ms    16 ms    18 ms  ae7.edge1.washingtondc4.level3.net [4.68.62.137]
  8    26 ms    19 ms    17 ms  vlan80.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.149.190
]
  9    22 ms    24 ms    26 ms  ae-92-92.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
57]
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Anyone else?