[174792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fullerton)
Wed Oct 1 16:39:06 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:38:38 -0400
From: Bryan Fullerton <fehwalker@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20141001202909.GG16215@hezmatt.org>
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On 01/10/2014 4:29 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:01:37AM -0700, Grant Ridder wrote:
>> For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html
> Ouch. Good thing Bashpocalypse is still capturing everyone's attention...
>
> Interestingly, Amazon *didn't* discover this bug, which makes one wonder why
> they, out of all the big Xen-based providers out there, got a heads-up in
> advance of the embargo end. If I was a big provider who didn't get advance
> notice, I'd be somewhat miffed.
Rackspace did reboots over the weekend for this as well -
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/an-apology/
Bryan
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