[20657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: They pulled a BIFF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew W. Smith)
Tue Oct 20 10:27:09 1998
From: "Andrew W. Smith" <awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810201127.HAA02594@heimdall.ttsg.com> from TTSG at "Oct 20, 1998 7:27:44 am"
To: ttsg@ttsg.com (TTSG)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:03:41 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has heard of the following term. I
> received it as a notification of an outtage from a vendor :
>
> At 5:35 CST, October 19, 1998 our AT&T backbone had 23 T-3's cut by a
> contractor. This caused a massive BIFF (Backhoe Induced Fiber Failure).
Sure ... it's a term commonly used to describe a SNAPU.
(Situation Normal, All Ploughed Up)
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