Tier One ISPs Dying

xbmodder writes "Two tier one ISPs are down today. At about 23:30PST both Verio and Level 3 starting having problems with routes. According to Level 3 this is a software upgrade gone awry. Is this the end for Level 3?" Many, many reports about this are coming in, and if you're wondering why the stories were rather sparse overnight, it's because it's difficult to post them without internet access. Hope everyone else is back online too.

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FFS, what a fucking dreadful summary

[Cally]

Is this the end for Level 3?

No, of course not, you blithering imbecile. L3 had a 2 hour global routing meltdown. Now, it's fixed. Whilst their routes were flapping, other carriers saw transient increases in latency and some problems with reachability, to some sites. However, everything continued to work properly for non-L3 customers. Two hours later L3's routes are back and working properly. End of story, nothing to see here, move along please.

Slashdot editors, do you really expect us to believe that no-one had submitted a more coherent or accurate story than this one? Come on, for heaven's sake.

Anyway, a network engineer's view can be seen in the overnight traffic on NANOG: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-10/ "Tier One ISPs dying" indeed. Worst. Story. EVER.