[24821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software Started MCI Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark A. Cnota)
Wed Aug 11 23:46:55 1999
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:47:04 -0500
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Mark A. Cnota" <mcnota@ameritech.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.00.9908111817510.9113-100000@mang2.mnsinc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
But we know talking about successful upgrades isn't nearly as interesting. ;-)
-Mark
At 06:25 PM 8/11/99 -0400, Todd Romero wrote:
>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
> >
