for everyone s benefit edification regardless of razor usage jordan original message from internap backbone status reports mailto noc URL sent thursday october NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER am to internap backbone status reports subject event notification uunet north american backbone problems NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pdt tixNUMBER fwd hello i have just spoken with an uunet technician at NUMBER NUMBER pdt and he was unable to provide me with any new information regarding the outage he did confirm that problems had spread beyond the east coast and are now seen nationwide through out their network they are currently working with their hardware vendor to try and isolate the issue a large number of internap s connections to uunet remain shutdown and traffic is being routed over alternate providers the scale of this outage is causing a large number of peering points with uunet and other providers to be flooded due to the large traffic shifts if you have problems reaching specific sites please send an email to noc URL containing a traceroute and source destination ip addresses and we will investigate if it is possible will will attempt to move specific prefixes onto an alternate provider leaving an internap pnap if that will provide better performance regards andrew andrew dul network operations center internap network services e mail noc URL andrew URL NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER the inoc the contents of this email message are confidential and proprietary forwarded message date thu NUMBER oct NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pdt from andrew dul andrew URL subject event notification uunet north american backbone problems tixNUMBER uunet is currently experiencing a large number of problems in their north american backbone internap has been aware of these problems since approx NUMBER NUMBER pst most of the problems appear to be concentrated on the east coast but we have reports of problems from other geographic regions this is being tracked under internap ticket NUMBER and uunet master ticket NUMBER uunet currently does not have any eta for a fix for this event if you have issues reaching a specific site please send an email to noc URL with a traceroute showing the path which has a problem internap has shutdown peerings to uunet is various cities to help reduce the number of problems that customers will experience regards andrew andrew dul network operations center internap network services e mail noc URL andrew URL NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER the inoc the contents of this email message are confidential and proprietary 