[146243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [outages] More notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brian nikell)
Mon Nov 7 22:39:30 2011
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From: brian nikell <nickellman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:37:55 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Actually, Juniper does disclose code bugs. Though not always to the public
at first, importantly to Juniper customers. Juniper had advised all of
their customers last August of this bug, however Level3 chose to continue
running it on their peer routers. Thus if Level3 and its clue(full)
management might have listened to their operators & network engineers....
cheers
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonathan Lassoff" <jof@thejof.com>
>
> > <tangential sidenote>
> > It's too bad that Junipers bugs aren't listed publicly. For clueful
> > network operations, having this information available to them could
> > have enabled them to properly weigh the risk of evaluating and
> > certifying versions of their operating systems.
>
> The reason it's called "gambling" is that sometimes, you lose.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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