Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!

  I saw the same problem. In the company I work a lot of users were
experiencing intermittent problems. When they submitted traceroutes they
were all going from Level3. I think Level3 is experiencing some issues.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Richard Cunningham <
rcunningham_at_convergencegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Level 3 had a planned outage last night (UK time). So I guess it could
> have been that.
>
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> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joseph L. Brunner
> Sent: 28 September 2012 04:25
> To: 'itguy.pro_at_gmail.com'; 'marco207p_at_gmail.com'
> Cc: 'bmcgahan_at_ine.com'; 'dcp_at_dcptech.com'; 'marcabel_at_gmail.com'; '
> renorider_at_gmail.com'; 'ccielab_at_groupstudy.com'
> Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
>
> Totally agree with that Haroon...
>
> When major viruses used to hit back in 2001-2003 (sircam, nimda, etc) the
> first thing the bosses said "we need to up our anti-virus support with
> symantec"
>
> Wouldn't be suprised to see some of these more nefarious antivirus
> companies like AVG and Avast behind this...
>
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> From: Haroon [mailto:itguy.pro_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:11 PM
> To: Joe Sanchez <marco207p_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: Brian McGahan <bmcgahan_at_ine.com>; Joseph L. Brunner; David Prall <
> dcp_at_dcptech.com>; marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com>; marc edwards <
> renorider_at_gmail.com>; Cisco certification <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
>
> all that maybe true but with the way economy is around the world it may
> just be network security companies doing something funny to scare the banks
> and the other organizations into buying their ddos/firewall/security tools
> and/or consulting services.
>
> i know banks should have all that infrastructure in place but more doesn't
> hurt and when did they deploy that, 5 years ago? its time to pony up.
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Joe Sanchez <marco207p_at_gmail.com<mailto:
> marco207p_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
> I know that there are reports of Iran running a squad of hackers right
> now, because of the Stuxnet virus that brought their Atomic Weapons program
> to a stand still, but with all major countries now using the internet as
> their cyber warfare playground what can we do. I'd personally like to
> blackhole some prefix's to fix a lot of this, but with a global economy
> what can we do. What a sad state indeed.
>
> JS
>
> On 9/27/12 9:52 PM, "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan_at_ine.com<mailto:
> bmcgahan_at_ine.com>> wrote:
>
> >It's kind of a sad state of affairs as it stands now. Realistically
> >how can you mitigate large scale DDoS? At the end of the day it's
> >scary how fragile the network really is.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>
> >[mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>] On Behalf
> >Of Joe Sanchez
> >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:25 PM
> >To: Joseph L. Brunner
> >Cc: David Prall; marc abel; marc edwards; Cisco certification
> >Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >
> >The problems are more than likely the result of the continuous DDOS
> >attacks by people wanting to jump on the Anonymous bangwagon and be a
> >script-kiddie for the day. Those that have been helping Anonymous "go
> >check your bank accounts" as there is a Trojan in the tool your using
> >for the DDOS attacks.
> >We have been contacting all of our bank customers that are on the
> >Anonymous attack list and having them consider the DDOS mitigation
> >companies that we partner with, some refuse to move yet but we are
> >working with them to start the paperwork, so when it happens we can
> >move their internet traffic through the proper paths. For the last few
> >months Anonymous has had a working list of companies that they are
> >targeting and have attacked most US banks on that list. The internet
> >is a free for all right now. We have a few Tunnels go down on
> >occassion, but we would never loose the backbone.
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Joseph L. Brunner
> ><joe_at_affirmedsystems.com<mailto:joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>>wrote:
> >
> >> Definitely XO's fault.. they have been in and out of bankruptcy for
> >> years now...
> >>
> >> Level3 is rock solid... I'm on the same edge router as salesforce.com<
> http://salesforce.com>.
> >> we both use Level3 for a reason :)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>
> >> [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>] On
> >> Behalf Of David Prall
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:16 PM
> >> To: 'marc abel'; 'marc edwards'
> >> Cc: 'Cisco certification'
> >> Subject: RE: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >>
> >> Could always subscribe to the outages mailing list. Archives show an
> >> L3->XO issue.
> >>
> >> https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-September/thread.html
> >>
> >> David
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> >> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>
> >> [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>] On
> >> Behalf Of marc abel
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:32 PM
> >> To: marc edwards
> >> Cc: Cisco certification
> >> Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >>
> >> I noticed some weirdness earlier. Is there a site or something that
> >> tracks these type outages?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, marc edwards
> >> <renorider_at_gmail.com<mailto:renorider_at_gmail.com>>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > I got report of 2 tier 1 failures. XO and level 3
> >> >
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