A massive route leak initiated by Telekom Malaysia (AS4788), starting at 8:43 June 12, 2015 UTC, caused significant network problems for the global routing system. Primarily affected was Level3 (AS3549 – formerly known as Global Crossing) and their customers. See http://www.bgpmon.net/massive-route-leak-cause-internet-slowdown/ for details.
We looked at the daily traceroutes measured from SLAC to ~ 800 PingER monitored hosts to see which one were using AS3539:
[cottrell@pinger ~]$ grep 3549 /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/* /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_pinger.uum.edu.my_2015_06_12:21 210.19.33.130 (210.19.33.130) [AS3549] 268.581 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_speedtest.bitcom.com.br_2015_06_12:11 208.178.58.177 (208.178.58.177) [AS3549] 4.213 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.ait.ac.th_2015_06_12:14 61.19.14.46 (61.19.14.46) [AS4651/AS3549] 216.855 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.ait.asia_2015_06_12:14 61.19.14.38 (61.19.14.38) [AS4651/AS3549] 225.769 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.ait.asia_2015_06_12:15 61.19.14.38 (61.19.14.38) [AS4651/AS3549] 225.796 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.mju.ac.th_2015_06_12:13 61.19.9.109 (61.19.9.109) [AS4651/AS3549] 205.348 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.mju.ac.th_2015_06_12:14 61.19.7.110 (61.19.7.110) [AS4651/AS3549] 211.300 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.rmutsv.ac.th_2015_06_12:11 61.19.9.181 (61.19.9.181) [AS4651/AS3549] 210.115 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.rmutsv.ac.th_2015_06_12:12 61.19.9.181 (61.19.9.181) [AS4651/AS3549] 210.167 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.usim.edu.my_2015_06_12:20 210.19.163.26 (210.19.163.26) [AS3549] 202.149 ms /afs/slac/package/pinger/chktrace/2015_06_12/www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu_to_www.usim.edu.my_2015_06_12:21 210.19.163.26 (210.19.163.26) [AS3549] 198.296 ms
Looking at those in S. E. Asia:
- pinger.uum.edu.my has not been accessible for several months.
- there is no obvious correlation in degraded ping performance for
It is seen in the graph below that we observed losses of > 80 at 9:09, 9:39 and 10:09 and zero loss at 8:38am and again at 10:38. Also the Round Trip times increased from ~ 200 msec to over 450 msec. The route from SLAC to www.mahsa.edu.my passes through AS4788.
Similar results are seen for pings from SLAC to www.mmu.edu.my.