----- "Jeremy Chadwick" <outages@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
Looks like it's all back up as of about 30 mins ago.
Apparently either a core switch or router failed, which took down much of their network in Atlanta, as well as Memphis and Nashville.
Level 3 has a single router or switch handling packets at a major POP? I doubt this, but the outage is confirmation something bad happened. That said: where's the redundancy, and why didn't it kick in?
Oh; you're *always* asking that. :-) The Internet Backbone<tm> has been a commercial, rather than an engineering, construct for over 15 years now. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.