Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Den 20/05/2018 kl. 05.43 skrev valdis.kletni...@vt.edu: On Sat, 19 May 2018 22:28:07 +0200, Baldur Norddahl said: What happened to do not trust anyone? Create your own resiliency by being multihomed to as many transits you can afford. Re-read what David Hubbard said: unacceptable period of

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/May/18 22:28, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > What happened to do not trust anyone? Create your own resiliency by being > multihomed to as many transits you can afford. > > You need the ability to shutdown a transit that is having trouble. It > happens to all of them. Agreed. Mark.

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/May/18 09:16, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > The question was if downtime on a transit provider of many hours is > unacceptable. I am offering my experience that this happens to all of > them. Some of them can have problems that last days not hours. Do not > ever assume that a so called "tier

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread joel jaeggli
On 5/17/18 6:24 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > I often question why\how people build networks the way they do. There's some > industry hard-on with having a few ginormous routers instead of many smaller > ones. I've learned that when building Internet Exchanges, the number of > networks that don't

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Rubens Kuhl
CenturyLink bought Level 3, which bought Global Crossing, which bought Impsat; this makes every market unique, for the good and bad of it. What I have as a customer feeling is that Global Crossing was the most quality-minded of the 4, while the other 3 is/were more "take what we give you and shut

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:33 PM Rubens Kuhl wrote: > > CenturyLink bought Level 3, which bought Global Crossing, which bought > Impsat; this makes every market unique, for the good and bad of it. > > What I have as a customer feeling is that Global Crossing was the most > quality-minded of the 4,

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Sun, 20 May 2018 09:16:25 +0200, Baldur Norddahl said: > He is complaining about AS3356 in specific and claiming they COULD > reroute around it but choose not to. This leads me to assume there are > alternatives. Two places, Miami and Texas, are mentioned and that a > double fault, one in Miami

Re: Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

2018-05-20 Thread Mike Hammett
To circle back to the original post... Level 3 does have multiple routes out of Tampa. They just apparently don't use them all for their transit service. Why not? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Origi