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Internet Issues in the US - Possible Backbone Issue
There seems to be an issue with Level 3 at the moment which is causing all sorts of sites to be unreachable for some people but not others. Rackspace (mail, hosting, cloud, etc), Facebook, Hotmail, Github, Digital Ocean, etc.
For those experiencing connectivity issues, try a different ISP/network. For example, I can't connect to any of the above networks via my regular Time Warner cable connection or via my T-Mobile hotspot. But I can connect via my Verizon hotspot.
- zebra 13y agoMaybe NSA filter overload?
- motoboi 13y agoNSA updating firmwares.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- neals 13y agowhat is a level 3?
- johnchristopher 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communications
- biot 13y agoAnswer: See What is Google?
- elliottcarlson 13y agoWhile most of these services have now been rerouted via Above Net etc, some ISPs such as Time Warner (in NY at least) still seem to be routing via Level3 and unable to get to a lot of destinations.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoTime Warner always seems slow to re-route. T-Mobile is having the same issue.
- nayefc 13y agoBecause Time Warner sucks.
- ajpiano 13y agoConfirm. Woke up this morning to limited connectivity, realised I was getting to some sites and not others. While on hold with TWC (where they said there was an 'outage affecting service in your area'), loaded HN to see if, well, HN would load, and this was the #3 story. Thanks HN, GFY TWC!
- schandur 13y agoYou just described my morning. Opened HN right after this: Tracing route to debian.org [128.31.0.51] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 42 ms 28 ms 28 ms cpe-74-73-128-1.nyc.res.rr.com [74.73.128.1] 3 14 ms 13 ms 12 ms gig-0-2-0-3-nycmnya-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.98.1] 4 12 ms 15 ms 15 ms 184.152.112.105 5 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-3-0.cr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.76] 6 13 ms 12 ms 15 ms 107.14.17.169 7 15 ms 12 ms 13 ms xe-4-2-0.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net [4.68.63.121] 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 * * * Request timed out. 10 * * * Request timed out.
- nayefc 13y agoTime Warner asked me to give them the milliseconds of a working website traceroute, instead of the broken link to a non-working website! It's hilarious (and quite sad) how incompetent Time Warner is.
- JohnTHaller 13y ago
- JohnTHaller 13y ago11 out of 37 routers down as of 11am EDT. http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
- jessaustin 13y agoAre they typically all up?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- JohnTHaller 13y agoNope. But that seemed like a few more than normal to me. I might be wrong about that, though.
- chrisbolt 13y agoPlease stop linking to this site. It's been abandoned for ages and isn't a useful indicator of anything.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoAccording to Internet Pulse, the Level 3 issues seem to be solved as of 11:03am. Still showing a slow connection between AT&T to Cogent and AT&T to SBC. http://www.internetpulse.net/ http://www.internetpulse.net/ I am still unable to reach any of the above sites/networks via my Time Warner Cable connection, though.
- apaprocki 13y agoToo funny -- I diagnosed this to L3 on my home net this morning and I found myself saying "I wonder if anyone else has this issue?". When it comes to the backbone providers there is no Twitter account or status.level3.net or status.theinternet. Hard to do when everything is decentralized. I usually go hit NANOG when stuff like this happens but you're not guaranteed to find something real time there.
- pearkes 13y agoYea, same here. I took this traceroute (mtr): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5k29jnfkhz0ggu/2013-10-19%20at%203.04%20PM.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5k29jnfkhz0ggu/2013-10-... Not sure what was going on there, I wish I did, but seems to be related? Edit: that was going to an nyc digital ocean VPS
- aroch 13y agoWell, there is lg.level3.net but it's down too!
- busterarm 13y agohttp://www.internetpulse.com/ http://www.internetpulse.com/
- chimeracoder 13y ago> Hard to do when everything is decentralized. It's funny, because when you think about it, the Internet is remarkably centralized despite its potential to be almost completely decentralized. A coworker of mine was telling me just this week that the building we work in, in New York City, is one of two single points of failure for the Northeast (and both points of failure are in New York). This is an incredibly chilling thought when you consider just how little control humans still have over natural disasters (we saw this firsthand last year in NYC). By "single point of failure" I don't mean that every single person would be unable to access every single website, but that large chunks of the Internet (particularly anything coming from Europe) would be unavailable for most of those users.
- mrgriscom 13y ago
- tux 13y agoI thought this is only associated with my routers "DNS Amplified DDoS vulnerability" on Asus RT-N56U router when using Level3 DNS "209.244.0.3 and 209.244.0.4" but after upgrading my firmware the issue continued. So I've changed my DNS to "8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4" google dns and everything started working normal for me. Good to know that this is not just me ^_^
- pinkmist 13y agoThese issues have been around for at least a couple of weeks now. I too have been monitoring Internet Pulse and what I see is not only Level 3 puking on a regular basis but several of the other backbones also. Quite honestly, it's either a gross lack of competence or the feds are beginning to condition the net as they are in the military. ~Ginn
- joezydeco 13y agoWe lost telecom for almost all of Thursday and our provider told us there was a major metro fiber cut somewhere. Related?
- gesman 13y agoMy dedicated server went on to serving data as dialup modem speed and provider said it was optic fiber issues on their end. That seemed to be fixed later on.
- dec0dedab0de 13y agoI have to remember to check HN before driving in to work when a bunch of people call me about outages.
- TimHordern 13y agoWe're beginning to see sites come back up on our TWC connection.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoAs of 1pm EDT, I can now reach Rackspace, Facebook, Hotmail, Github, Digital Ocean, etc.
- raiyu 13y agoWe can confirm that there are large issues on Level3's network we've had to pull them from the routing mix until they get everything resolved and stabilized. Thanks, Moisey cofounder DigitalOcean
- superuser2 13y agoIsn't there a website that shows a giant table of all the Tier 1 providers and the current ping latency and packet loss between them? I've been unable to find this again... does anyone have a link?
- agnokapathetic 13y agohttp://www.internetpulse.net/ http://www.internetpulse.net/
- korphol 13y agoUsually the looking glass for each tier 1 provider will give you a good idea I can see http://lookingglass.level3.net/ http://lookingglass.level3.net/ is down now. http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses
- patrickg_zill 13y agoLevel3 is in the midst of grooming/updating/changing some of their fiber connections. One Level3 DC I have servers in, was served out of Baltimore, MD ; but in the last few weeks they changed it to be served out of NYC. By "served" I mean that the actual huge-Cisco that the fiber terminated to, was in Baltimore. Very glad to have moved out of Level3, actually :)
- wglb 13y agoThis http://www.internetpulse.net/ http://www.internetpulse.net/ is always a handy tool to get an internet-wide picture.