[181961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Thu Jul 9 04:04:00 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:15:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <559D587E.5080900@mykolab.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It's important to not form an opinion too early, especially anyone involved=
with forensic analysis of these systems. This is a classic fault in amateu=
r investigation: an early opinion will lead you into confirmation bias, irr=
ationally accepting data agreeing with your opinions and rejecting that dis=
proving it.=20
-mel beckman
> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wro=
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> NYSE: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue
> and is not the result of a cyber breach."
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> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
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> United Air statement CNBC: =93An issue with a router degraded network
> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
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> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
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> - - ferg
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>> On 7/8/2015 9:36 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>> All completely coincidental networking issues, not related to
>> anything malicious.
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>> - ferg
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>>> On 7/8/2015 9:26 AM, Matthew Huff wrote:
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>>> Hmmm,
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>>> Wall Street Journal and NYSE both down=85.
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>>> WSJ has a static page up=85
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>>> DDOS ???
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>>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore=20
>>>> <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
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>>>> Lifted as of 0920 EDT.
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>>>> <http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/08/united-airlines-flights-in-us-
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