Bouncing A Port — Details

IT people have certain types of jargon or words that are not really defined anywhere. “Bouncing a port” or “bouncing an interface” is one such phrase. There is no where to really look up what this means. You can search Google, but the first result I get (experts exchange) is completely wrong. “Bouncing a port”…

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Level 3 Outage

Level 3 Communications is a huge network provider. They sell all kinds of networking services, including IP transit, VOIP, and cloud services. Their primary ASN is AS3356. A network as large as Level 3’s is going to suffer outages from time to time. There are a number of tools you can use to see if Level…

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