Can anyone point to any authoritative updates about this? On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Tom Hill wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:00 -0500, Todd Snyder wrote: > >> We seem to be having some problems with our tata links - first seen in > EU > >> about 45 minutes ago, now we're seeing problems in NA. I'm focused on > DNS, > >> so I'm seeing a lot of timeouts/servfails, but our networking folks are > >> talking about links dropping. > >> > >> Anyone else seeing oddness on the NA Internet right now? > >> > >> http://downrightnow.com/ confirms - something is up. > > > > There are widespread issues across the Internet; certain versions of > > Juniper firmware have core dumped after seeing a particular BGP 'UPDATE' > > message. > > > > (That's the running theory at least). > > > > It's affected multiple service providers, globally, not just those > > connected to TATA. > > > Pretty much any major BGP event will impact multiple providers. > > A threshold you should use to view the general instability (which I find > valuable, you may as well) is route views data. > > If you look at the BGP UPDATES archive sizes, you can see when something > happens, e.g.: > > http://archive.routeviews.org/bgpdata/2011.11/UPDATES/ > > Take a look at the size of the updates.20111107.1400.bz2 file and the 1415 > file. They are abnormally large compared to a normal period of time. This > shows there were a lot of updates out there being processed and a reference > to levels of instability. > > If you are not feeding route views or similar community projects, please > consider doing so. It helps paint the view for those doing analysis. > > - Jared >
