[24820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software Started MCI Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Romero)
Wed Aug 11 18:39:49 1999
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:25:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Romero <tromero@verio.net>
To: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37B1F237.2BF28471@concentric.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
coincidentally, that _very_ same evening, (thurday night) Bell Atlantic
asked for a 10 minute maintence window on an SMDS Ds3 that connects a
small regional popsite. When asked what the maintence was for, i was
informed it was "to do a software upgrade on the switch" :O
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html
>
> According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda
> Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere
> on the frame relay network when the device began to
> "experience congestion" and the initial outage began.
> Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade
> occurred or what the upgrade was for.
>
> Henry
>
