[Gllug] Today

[Paul Rayner]

On 1 Nov 2006, at 11:16, - Tethys wrote:

> On 11/1/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
>
>> This morning my ISP (homechoice) advised me that "browsing" was  
>> proving
>> difficult for users of "most" UK ISPs and indeed it looked as  
>> though DNS
>> was badly partitioned - I could reach the BBC but not my own server
>> sitting in my living room if I used its external dyndns.info address.
>>
>> It's fixed now, allegedly. Anyone know what was up?
>
> No, but we were experiencing noticable packet loss, and our routes to
> the outside world have been switching all over the place this morning.
> Seems to have quietened down now. At a guess, some moderately large
> chunk of network infrastructure failed, and BGP did its thing to
> compensate. Half of our traffic seems to go via New York now,
> presumably because a more direct route isn't available at the moment.

This may be why:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/01/level3_robbery/

My level 3 connection was off this morning but it's back now. The  
emails I'm getting suggest service is gradually coming back bit by bit.

Paul
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Paul Rayner
Ylem Solutions Ltd ~  4-14 Tabernacle Street, London. EC2A 4LU
Office: 020 7183 2959 ~ Mobile: 07739 143 763 ~  
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