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Re: qwest outage no notice

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Jan 7 10:05:42 2010

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:04:54 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> said:
> 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.

I got 3 notices about the outage related to our 1 Qwest OC-3.

As for the Juniper security issues, see juniper-nsp archives.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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