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[_] Protx not accessible?

Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk
Fri May 2 14:54:52 BST 2008

On 2 May 2008, at 14:30, Craig Francis wrote:
>
> On 2 May 2008, at 12:08, Matt Hamilton wrote:
>> There are some LINX issues at the moment, I was seeing about 20%
>> packet loss across LINX to certain destinations.
>
>
>
> Thanks Matt,
>
> Out of interest, where do you ISP types get this information
> (traceroute?)... or is it just a skill you develop when spending so
> much time listening to the inter-tubes?

Yup, I have one ear to the inter-tubes at all times :)

In this case, we noticed a connectivity issue, I then did some  
traceroutes to confirm it, then contacted our upstream to see what  
they knew, and they confirmed it being a LINX issue.

LINX also have a variety of tools on their website, such as the  
Looking Glass which lets you run various diagnostics.  But you can  
also see the effect of the problem on their daily stats graph:

https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html?stats=day

-Matt

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