[20388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Oct 11 13:42:31 1998
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:02:29 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199810110232.TAA05366@rip.psg.com>; from Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:32:01PM -0700
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:32:01PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > What WILL bring down the whole house..:
>
> my favorite was the one byte change to the switch code which took out a big
> chunk of the country.
Are you referring to the 4ESS SS7 cascade crash of several years back,
Randy? I seem to recall that that was more than one character. Couple
of lines.
Now, there _was_ a one character problem in a FORTRTAN program that
killed a space probe...
The Neumann and Lee books are quite good references on this, albeit the
Lee book is a touch sensational.
Cheers,
-- jra
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