[outages] Cox -> nLayer connectivity issues
Jake Mertel
jake at nobistech.net
Wed Dec 19 18:50:19 EST 2012
Something else that just clicked, I have been having a number of issues reaching arin.net today from one of my servers in Los Angeles that uses nLayer as its upstream. Request response times are between 20 and 40 seconds as opposed to 2 to 4 seconds on our office connection. Looking at my trace from LA, we are going LA<->Cox<->ARIN.
C:\Users\jake>tracert arin.net
Tracing route to arin.net [192.149.252.76]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms v403.er01.lax.ubiquity.io [72.37.224.129]
2 1 ms 5 ms 1 ms xe-1-0-3.ar1.lax2.us.nlayer.net [69.31.127.45]
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ae1-80g.cr1.lax1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.127.129]
4 2 ms 5 ms 2 ms ae2-50g.ar1.lax1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.127.142]
5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms as22773.ae12.ar1.lax1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.127.230]
6 70 ms 111 ms 70 ms mrfddsrj01-ae0.0.rd.dc.cox.net [68.1.1.5]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 72 ms 73 ms 82 ms wsip-98-172-152-14.dc.dc.cox.net [98.172.152.14]
10 72 ms 72 ms 82 ms host-252-131.arin.net [192.149.252.131]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Jake Mertel
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:45 PM
To: 'Brandon Whaley'; 'outages at outages.org'
Subject: Re: [outages] Cox -> nLayer connectivity issues
We have received a report of similar issues today. The client has servers with us in several locations where we use nLayer and/or PacketExchagne and his monitoring system is on a network that uses Cox as its preferred upstream. He shutdown his Cox upstream and didn’t have any issues reaching the servers over his backup provider. The issues were sporadic and did not affect all protocols – ICMP pings worked, snmpwalk was fine, but UDP traces were dying somewhere on the reverse path. Seems to be very similar to what you are seeing.
From: outages-bounces at outages.org<mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org> [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Whaley
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:25 PM
To: outages at outages.org<mailto:outages at outages.org>
Subject: [outages] Cox -> nLayer connectivity issues
We've been seeing intermittent TCP/UDP connectivity issues from Cox Communications in Virginia to any location that routes over nLayer. UDP traceroutes are fine, but DNS lookups time out for minutes at a time, then work again for ~5 minutes before repeating the problem. ICMP is never affected during the outages.
traceroute to 198.46.80.1 (198.46.80.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router36f24c.local (192.168.14.1) 0.560 ms 0.531 ms 0.753 ms
2 wsip-174-77-92-169.hr.hr.cox.net<http://wsip-174-77-92-169.hr.hr.cox.net> (174.77.92.169) 2.532 ms 2.581 ms 3.009 ms
3 172.21.224.153 (172.21.224.153) 3.995 ms 4.067 ms 4.111 ms
4 172.21.249.101 (172.21.249.101) 4.185 ms 4.396 ms 4.561 ms
5 172.21.249.73 (172.21.249.73) 4.916 ms 4.900 ms 5.128 ms
6 172.21.249.18 (172.21.249.18) 5.517 ms 5.124 ms 5.043 ms
7 ip-216-54-33-22.coxfiber.net<http://ip-216-54-33-22.coxfiber.net> (216.54.33.22) 210.486 ms 210.477 ms 210.466 ms
8 68.1.4.139 (68.1.4.139) 221.950 ms 222.460 ms 232.268 ms
9 * xe-5-0-7.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net<http://xe-5-0-7.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net> (69.31.10.81) 226.332 ms 226.866 ms
10 as54641.xe-9-0-1.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net<http://as54641.xe-9-0-1.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net> (69.31.31.42) 223.718 ms 225.083 ms 225.744 ms
11 198.46.80.1 (198.46.80.1) 225.706 ms 226.670 ms 226.698 ms
Is anyone with Cox on the list that can investigate/contact me?
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Best Regards,
Brandon W.
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