[160437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Feb 6 07:39:32 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CADECfTWAosarvXJdaoMi7VGy-EYV-jbkQ9xFMOe73YiWWWmDRw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 07:39:14 -0500
To: Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also received same ...
>=20
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Ray Wong <rayw@rayw.net> wrote:
>=20
>> Does anyone have details on tonight's apparent worldwide emergency
>> router upgrade? All I managed to get out of the portal was 30 =
minutes,
>> "Service Affecting" (no kidding?) and the NOC line gave me the
>> recording about it and disconnected me.
So, I'm wondering what is shocking that someone may have to push out =
some sort of upgrade either urgently or periodically that is so =
impacting and causes these emails on the list.
There seems to be some sort of psychological event happening in addition =
to the technological one.
In the past I've had to push out software fixes "urgently" due to =
various reasons, either being a software thing like the PSN or some =
weird hardware+software interaction that causes bad things to happen.
Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices? Are the =
consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business is =
severely impacted?
- Jared
