[outages] asianetcom.net latency/packet loss

[Matthew Petach]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Got a couple of VPNs and using different ISPs to Australia from the UK and
> they are struggling at the moment.
>
> Seems to be as soon as we hit Asianetcom.net looking at the traceroutes, the
> San Jose link is very much worse than the the LAX connections.
>
> Could be as a result of the events off the japanese coast I would suggest
> but if anyone has anymore info would be appreciated

There are waves on pacnet from japan to taiwan down, and circuits
from san jose past japan to india that are down, with timeframes that
are consistent with quake or aftershock related impacts; no guarantee
that's the actual cause, mind you.

Matt