[outages] Intermittent Level 3 outage/connectivity issues on Dallas edges?

Chris Boulton chris at bigcommerce.com
Thu Jan 24 15:02:29 EST 2013


It looks like the situation has resolved itself in the last minute - I'm
still waiting for an update from Level 3, but from 2 off-list replies it
looks like there were a few people who've experienced routing issues with
Level 3 in Houston today.

Regards,

Chris Boulton
Bigcommerce

Email: chris at bigcommerce.com

Web: http://www.bigcommerce.com/


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Chris Boulton <chris at bigcommerce.com>wrote:

> Ah, my apologies on the confusion. They're two distinct paths out, not
> traceroutes from each end.
>
> I chose not to include the destination IP because the issues we're seeing
> a more wide spread than to a single IP.
>
> Level 3 managed to get back to us - they were originally reporting back to
> us that they are experiencing connectivity issues for some of their clients
> in Austin, which they're now denying and still continuing to investigate.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Boulton
> Bigcommerce
>
> Email: chris at bigcommerce.com
>
> Web: http://www.bigcommerce.com/
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
>
>> Chris, is there some reason you're not providing actual
>> source/destination IPs for each of your mtrs?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is because I was left to believe what you were
>> providing was both ends of an asymmetric connection (i.e. mtr #1 was
>> for x.x.x.x to y.y.y.y, mtr #2 was for y.y.y.y to x.x.x.x).
>>
>> However, your 2nd paragraph below ("we're seeing issues over one
>> connections but not another") seems to indicate what you provided are
>> two mtrs across completely different circuits.
>>
>> So which is it?
>>
>> --
>> | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
>> | UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
>> | Mountain View, CA, US                                            |
>> | Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 06:14:05AM +1100, Chris Boulton wrote:
>> > Thanks, I am aware of what the traceroute shows and how a traceroute
>> works.
>> > The intent of the traceroute was primarily to show where I see our paths
>> > between Level 3 and TW Telecom converge.
>> >
>> > Plain and simple - we are experiencing connectivity issues over our
>> Level 3
>> > connection, which we're not seeing over our TW Telecom connection for
>> > traffic destined to the same location.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Chris Boulton
>> > Bigcommerce
>> >
>> > Email: chris at bigcommerce.com
>> >
>> > Web: http://www.bigcommerce.com/
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Please see my below post on this matter, which I posted only 2 days
>> ago:
>> > >
>> > > https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2013-January/005111.html
>> > >
>> > > What you've shown in your mtr does not show any issue of any kind with
>> > > Level 3.  The packet loss shown at hops 4/5/6 does not "trickle down"
>> > > each subsequent hop (look at hop 7 onward for proof), nor is there any
>> > > sign of latency increase either.
>> > >
>> > > On the other hand, the 2nd mtr you provided shows some degree of
>> packet
>> > > loss starting at hop 2 (TW Telecom) which *does* "trickle down"
>> through
>> > > all subsequent hops (egress).  If you want to know how many packets
>> were
>> > > lost, look at the --order flag to mtr (I recommend --order=LSRNABW).
>> > >
>> > > Plain and simple: talk to TW Telecom about the loss in their network.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
>> > > | UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
>> > > | Mountain View, CA, US                                            |
>> > > | Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:46:27AM +1100, Chris Boulton wrote:
>> > > > Seeing connectivity issues as traffic passes through Level 3 in
>> Dallas -
>> > > > not seeing the same issues for where routes converge (above.net in
>> DFW)
>> > > > over our TW Telecom link.
>> > > >
>> > > > Anybody else experiencing this as well?
>> > > >
>> > > > Level 3:
>> > > >
>> > > >  Host                                                     Loss%
>> Snt
>> > > > Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>> > > >  1. vlan358.car1.Houston1.Level3.net                       0.0%
>> 167
>> > > >  105.9  80.5  31.7 276.4  59.8
>> > > >  2. ae-2-5.bar1.Houston1.Level3.net                        0.0%
>> 167
>> > > > 32.5  34.6  32.2  93.8   7.3
>> > > >  3. ae-13-13.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net                       0.0%
>> 167
>> > > > 39.5  37.4  36.7  41.2   0.9
>> > > >  4. ae-91-91.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net                      65.1%
>> 167
>> > > > 44.5  43.5  39.7  53.8   4.0
>> > > >  5. ae-4-90.edge2.Dallas3.Level3.net                       5.4%
>> 166
>> > > > 37.1  37.9  36.1  75.6   5.1
>> > > >  6. ex-3-1-0.er1.dfw2.us.above.net                        66.1%
>> 166
>> > > > 39.5  43.5  38.9 104.8  12.5
>> > > >  7. xe-3-1-0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net                         0.0%
>> 166
>> > > > 37.3  40.4  37.0 114.1  10.6
>> > > >  8. xe-0-0-0.er3.dfw2.us.above.net                         0.0%
>> 166
>> > > > 36.2  39.8  36.1  99.3  10.2
>> > > >
>> > > >  Host                                                     Loss%
>> Snt
>> > > > Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>> > > >  1. 50.58.18.1                                             0.0%
>> 829
>> > > >  4.3  23.9   4.1 121.2  14.5
>> > > >  2. dal2-pr2-xe-0-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net                   0.1%
>> 829
>> > > > 55.4  31.2   9.4 121.0  17.2
>> > > >     dal2-pr2-xe-2-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net
>> > > >  3. xe-3-0-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net                         0.1%
>> 829
>> > > > 44.8  31.6   9.5 143.7  17.9
>> > > >  4. xe-0-1-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net                         0.2%
>> 829
>> > > > 40.5  31.2  10.3 116.2  15.9
>> > > >     xe-3-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net
>> > > >  5. xe-0-2-0.er3.dfw2.us.above.net                         0.2%
>> 829
>> > > > 42.7  32.4   9.6 109.2  16.5
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Regards,
>> > > >
>> > > > Chris Boulton
>> > > > Bigcommerce
>> > > >
>> > > > Email: chris at bigcommerce.com
>> > > >
>> > > > Web: http://www.bigcommerce.com/
>> > >
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