Network Event

Posted by Blue Box Group on Tue Feb 05 11:20:00 UTC 2008

At 10:37am Pacific time, an upstream network peer experienced a problem on their network. The explanation we’ve received so far is as follows: “A router in Salt Lake City dropped its routing tables, which caused a router in Chicago to lose several BGP sessions.”

This network problem would have been identified primarily by east coast customers as a 30 second to 1 minute outage as certain upstream connections failed over. By 10:42am, Network issues with this particular vendor appeared to stabilize and there have been no further events of this nature today.

This even was another example of our meshed network operating as designed to keep our network online in the event of an outage outside our control. We’re only posting here as we’ve received a few questions about caused the problem.

As we receive more information from our network vendors, we will update this ticket.

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