[outages] Anyone seeing major IP problems right now?

[Dave Hart]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 20:40, Bower, Zeek <Zeek_Bower at medco.com> wrote:
> As of Nov 18 14:30 EST - We are currently seeing downed connections from
> multiple ISPs in different geographical locations. Is anyone aware of a
> current back bone issue?

Without saying which ISPs, which locations, and which destinations
you're having trouble with, your message is useless.  Your question
seems to suggest you think these multiple ISPs are each connecting you
to one big backbone in the sky, and you think this unified backbone
might have a backache today.  There is no unified backbone.  There are
many different national and global networks that can credibly talk
about their backbones, and they interconnect in wildly varied ways at
locations around the world.

Please, save your breath if you can't or won't provide a traceroute,
mtr, etc showing the path and evidence of a problem, or at least a
very specific description like "we're getting complaints from Comcast
customers in Maryland trying to reach our services in Houston hosted
on Level3 and customer traceroutes seem to point to a problem at the
handoff from XO to Level3 in Dallas."

"Downed connections from multiple ISPs in different locations" without
specifying your location, your ISP(s) and the specific remote
ISP/location pairs is just barely more information than "the internets
is bork!"

Thanks,
Dave Hart