I think it lasted about 20 minutes. I believe it was an upstream problem (though this is not confirmed at the moment, and boy, won't I be embarrassed if it turns out to be my router crashing.) This upstream was pretty good for the first year or so, but they've been getting less reliable. I guess we need to quit talking about it and build our own BGP router and get a secondary upstream.
I've been holding back on this project just 'cause nick and I don't have a lot of experience running BGP; we're announcing some swamp one of our customers has as a start, but even that hasn't been without hiccups. Generally speaking, I would think that leaving it to my upstream would result in a more reliable system, but of late, that hasn't been the case, so I suppose we need to roll our BGP systems in to production.
edit: here is what our upstream had to say:
"EGIHosting.com - Support" writes:
Hi Luke,
There was an emergency maint that was done on the BACKBONE fiber going to SJ DC. Everything is done and back up normal now.
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they've been blaming most of the recent outages on XO, who apparently provides them point to point links to whoever they actually buy bandwidth from.
I need to find out who can get me transit at SVTIX without going through those (apparently fragile) XO lines.
