Goltz, Jim (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote:
It was reported to me that there's a BGP issue in Sprint's Chicago POP. Can anyone confirm or deny? The issues affecting us started around 3:40 pm CT.
This is fourth-hand, but this was posted on the NANOG list:
Found out from an upstream provider that Sprint might be having some major backbone issues right now.
A number of their backbone routers are down. This is third hand information but would seem to make sense considering what we're seeing here. We dropped our sprint connection until this clears up but reachability to any site that is on their network or uses them for transit is iffy at best.
There are also reports they are advertising routes they don't have, possibly because of the backbone outage.
The Internet Health Report (http://www.internetpulse.net/) definitely sees some flakiness.
Sprint's own performance map is showing 7% to 8% packet loss out of St. Louis. https://www.sprint.net/performance/ ~Seth