[outages] Level3 from LA to Korea down?

23 Jan 2013

      Have a customer that does a lot of email to Korea and saw their mail backing 
up this morning due to 'host not found' errors to a domain they email 
frequently. Figured they let their domain expire, but in checking it out, I 
find I cannot query the name servers for their domain, which are 
ns[1234].whoisdomain.kr. Traffic to them dies on Level3 in LA:

traceroute to 211.206.125.155 (211.206.125.155), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  ge-6-24-576.car1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.28.16.137)  85.727 ms 85.724 ms  
85.799 ms
  2  vlan51.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.147.94)  35.938 ms 35.952 ms  
35.948 ms
  3  ae-3-3.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.57)  36.016 ms 35.953 ms  
35.963 ms
  4  ae-2-2.ebr2.SanJose5.Level3.net (4.69.148.141)  36.122 ms * 40.685 ms
  5  ae-6-6.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.148.201)  36.202 ms 36.222 ms  
36.203 ms
  6  ae-62-62.csw1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.18)  36.225 ms 
ae-82-82.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.26)  36.263 ms 
ae-92-92.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.30)  35.944 ms
  7  ae-2-70.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.69.144.79)  35.992 ms 
ae-3-80.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.69.144.143)  36.094 ms 36.105 ms
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traceroute to 211.206.125.155 (211.206.125.155), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
  1  gateway.tbie.net (10.10.100.1)  4.191 ms  4.195 ms  4.203 ms
  2  hlrn-dsl-gw01.hlrn.qwest.net (207.225.112.1)  44.353 ms 45.995 ms  
47.282 ms
  3  hlrn-agw1.inet.qwest.net (71.217.188.1)  48.971 ms  49.917 ms 51.637 ms
  4  dvr-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.24.118)  53.619 ms  55.320 ms  56.269 ms
  5  63.146.26.134 (63.146.26.134)  77.074 ms  78.090 ms  79.713 ms
  6  vlan51.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.147.94)  99.612 ms 95.310 ms  
95.268 ms
  7  ae-3-3.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.132.57)  97.331 ms 75.825 ms  
76.472 ms
  8  ae-2-2.ebr2.SanJose5.Level3.net (4.69.148.141)  80.746 ms 78.862 ms  
76.726 ms
  9  ae-6-6.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.148.201)  76.382 ms 77.211 ms  
76.548 ms
10  ae-72-72.csw2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.22)  76.767 ms 
ae-62-62.csw1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.18)  76.151 ms 
ae-82-82.csw3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.137.26)  77.360 ms
11  ae-1-60.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.69.144.15)  75.848 ms 
ae-2-70.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.69.144.79)  75.706 ms 
ae-4-90.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.69.144.207)  77.386 ms
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Anyone aware of any issues on that path to Asia?

Thanks

Chris

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Chris Stone, MCSE
Vice President, CTO
AxisInternet, Inc.
http://www.axint.net
DSL, VoIP, hosting, email filtering, co-location, online backup & more

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