On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 20:40, Bower, Zeek <Zeek_Bower@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