[181959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jul 9 04:03:57 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:42:52 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:55:43 -0400
Cc: nanog2 <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:42:52 -0000, Matthew Huff said:
> Given that the technical resources at the NYSE are significant and the
> lengthy duration of the outage, I believe this is more serious than is =
being
> reported.
My personal, totally zero-info suspicion:
Some chuckleheaded NOC banana-eater made a typo, and discovered an entire=
ly new
class of wondrous BGP-wedgie style =22We know how we got here, but how do=
we get
back?=22 network misbehaviors....
(Such things have happened before - like the med school a few years ago t=
hat
extended their ethernet spanning tree one hop too far, and discovered tha=
t
merely removing the one hop too far wasn't sufficient to let it come back=
up...)
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