[23868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Above.net off the air
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Tue Apr 27 22:30:15 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990427170706.38cb4@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >floating a "ha ha look - Abovenet crashed!" message on the NANOG
> >mailing list.
>
> Could be a few different reasons.
>
> a) Curiousity
> b) Concern it may have a root cause shared by other providers
> c) Lack of notification via formal channels
> d) Spite
> e) All of the above
or a combo of b) and f) A fairly large network goes down, which could lead
to priceless operational experience on bootstrapping from scratch. Avi
already mentioned dampening issues with the SPF calculations. And how to
architect this to prevent meltdown in the future. Partitioning the IGP
areas, etc etc etc.
Of course my original message was very badly phrased and for that I
apologize.
/vijay
