[outages] Forwarded from UKNOF, a British Telecom outage

Bill Woodcock woody at pch.net
Sat Jun 28 18:56:05 EDT 2014



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> Subject: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:15:07 AM PDT
> To: "uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk" <uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk>
> 
> Hi folks, I’m noticing reports of multiple DNS issues – is there a problem with root dns servers?  My network seems ok but I’m hearing ebay, twitter, some other biggies are unavailable for some people..
>  
> Simon Jones
> SEMTEC Limited T/A SAQ


Begin forwarded message:

> From: William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:24:06 AM PDT
> To: Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk
> 
> I have just had a similar report from our support Centre. Anyone else?


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Blackman <mark at exonetric.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:27:11 AM PDT
> To: William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> Sounds like BT from the twitter reports.
> 
> https://twitter.com/search?q=DNS&src=typd


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rob Greenwood <bilco105 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:27:22 AM PDT
> To: William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> Issue with BT DNS only I believe. Google DNS is working fine.
> 
> -Rob


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Job Snijders <job at instituut.net>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:29:33 AM PDT
> To: Mark Blackman <mark at exonetric.com>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk, William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:27:11AM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote:
>> Sounds like BT from the twitter reports.
> 
> I heard through backchannels that AS 5400 withdrew half of their
> prefixes on peering sessions, so would be good bet something funky is
> going on.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ben King <ben at warwicknet.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:50:13 AM PDT
> To: Rob Greenwood <bilco105 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk" <uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk>, William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> I think BT are having big issues we have seen a massive drop of traffic with AS2856 since 9.25 this morning. In fact nothing coming in from them at all.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Henry Merrett <Henry.Merrett at serverchoice.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 2:53:28 AM PDT
> To: "uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk" <uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk>
> Cc: William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> We’re having BT issues too:
> 
> $ host bt.com
> bt.com has address 193.113.9.164
> 
> .the.as50056.net#sh ip route 193.113.9.164
> Can't find matching entry
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Henry Merrett
> Senior Network Engineer
> ServerChoice Ltd


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretec.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 3:13:40 AM PDT
> To: Job Snijders <job at instituut.net>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk, Paul Mansfield <paul+uknof at mansfield.co.uk>
> 
> BT IP Exchange is down due to this too.
> 
> Can't get through to IPX help desk since 09:20. They do have a message on there saying something is up.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ben King <ben at warwicknet.com>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 3:19:55 AM PDT
> To: Rob Greenwood <bilco105 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk" <uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk>, William Salt <williamejsalt at gmail.com>, Simon Jones <Simon at saq.net>
> 
> BT have acknowledged the issue to us, and I am seeing routes again, and traffic is climbing, so hopefully its all sorted now.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretec.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [uknof] DNS global issue?
> Date: June 28, 2014 at 3:25:42 AM PDT
> To: Job Snijders <job at instituut.net>
> Cc: uknof at lists.uknof.org.uk, Paul Mansfield <paul+uknof at mansfield.co.uk>
> 
> Alerting has detected it's back.


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