[120978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: qwest outage no notice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Jan 7 07:07:13 2010
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:06:31 +0100 (CET)
To: mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4B45B198.5040309@tiedyenetworks.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I called
> to report it I was told it was a 200+ emergency software upgrade due to
> a security concern, and that we will get a notice later after the fact.
> Normally we get notices in advance, even for software upgrades due to
> security or other important issues, so I am curious if other qwest
> customers had the same experience and wether this is how it's going to
> be from here on in? The affected platform was juniper and I'd love to
> know the specfic case being addressed here.
We received 7 Juniper Security Advisories today. My guess is that this
is the reason for the Qwest outage you've seen.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
