AS3320 NL-ix routing-issue

During the morning of the 8th of November 2022 multiple customers contacted me regarding connectivity issues to services pretty much all across the internet. Once I started digging through the traceroutes and MTRs of customers, I found most of them showing excessive packetloss starting at a hop resolving to “dtag.equinix-fr5.nl-ix.net”. Until that point, I have not even been aware that Deutsche Telekom (AS3320) is connected to NL-ix as they’ve neither listed their presence at PeeringDB…...

November 8, 2022 · 5 min · 871 words · Jan Gilla