[TriLUG] OT: Roadrunner routing problems (was "Internet routinginfrastructure problem?")

[Jon Carnes]

This may or may not be the problem, but it's something I've been dealing
with for a while now...

The problem may not be on the RR network. The problem may lay in the
Exchange NOC in NY.  I have seen a lot of this since Sept 11 of last year.
Some major switches in NY were destroyed, and folks have been routing around
them for quite a while.  That caused a lot of latency problems.

Then in the middle of January, some functionality was replace through NY,
and a lot of carriers have sent their routing back through there, but...
getting traffic though there is touch and go.  Up one minute and then down
the next.  It's up often enough that the supplemental routes don't kick in,
but down often enough that you loose connectivity all the time.  It's a
nightmare to send a VPN thorough it.

Basically the Primary routes through NY seem to be solid, but the internal
overflow routes really really suck.  To top it off, the monitoring center
for that NOC is still being rebuilt, so the carriers are working blind.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hedemark" <chris at yonderway.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Roadrunner routing problems (was "Internet
routinginfrastructure problem?")


> Amazon.com is back up, but other sites are now "down".
>
> There is another site I could reach as of 1:00AM today that has been
> unreachable since 9:00AM today.  I ssh'd into a machine off of the
> AOL/TW network and was able to lynx into it just fine.
>
> I went to http://help.rr.com and checked the network status.  They said
> everything was fine.  So either they aren't telling us that they know
> there is a problem or they don't know that there is a problem.  Anyone
> who is having a problem, I encourage anyone with similar problems on
> Roadrunner to go to http://help.rr.com and report the details.  If there
> are enough complaints it should hopefully get fixed.
>
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