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To be clear I'm not saying this was HE's problem.  I'm not sure it wasn't an issue with the route server, itself.  I just wanted to give people a heads up that we had an issue. 

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On Apr 3, 2013, at 9:01, Reid Fishler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If anyone is seeing problems, PLEASE email [log in to unmask]
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> Reid
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:45:15AM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
>> > This morning at approximately 1:30 our peering session with HE
>> > reset, I assume for some kind of normal maintenance on their end.
>> >
>> > This triggered a weird issue on our end.  Because of some crufty
>> > route policy we were preferring the routes we learned from the MICE
>> > route server over the routes we learned directly from HE.  And for
>> > some reason the routes we were learning from the route server had a
>> > different link-local address associated with them than the routes we
>> > learned directly.  And this address no longer seems to be valid, and
>> > this caused traffic to be black holed.
>> >
>> > From below
>> > FE80::224:38FF:FEA7:EA03 - address on routes learned from MICE RS
>> > FE80::224:38FF:FEA7:EA36 - address on routes direct from HE
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>> FIWW: We do buy transit from HE and did get the maintenance notice for
>> this morning.
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>> I've also seen this behavior from them before. I'm not sure if the link
>> local address changes on their end due to some change or what is going
>> on. It doesn't matter on our direct connect router, where we only
>> talk the public IPv6 address, but the MICE connection seems to have
>> stale link-local IPv6 addresses from time to time that I've had to
>> clear out due to some change.
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