[28925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Froutan)
Wed May 24 12:21:03 2000
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:16:43 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Froutan <pfroutan@rackspace.com>
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At 5/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jeff Wheat wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what happened on Monday? Seems like it has been hushed
> > up as I can find no information about
> > it anywhere. Contacting UUNet results in them telling us that their
> > legal department is working on a press release...
>
>i just called UUnet, and basically asked nicely "what happened on
>monday, around 5pm...?"
>
>the support person looked at the logs for my links, and said that they
>appeared stable at that point. i pressed a little more "don't you
>have any network status reports for monday? did someone trip over a
>switch or something?"
>
>he said, "oh yah monday! someone nuked some routing tables, that's
>right...like 50,000 customers were out, our call queue was crazy!"
>
>the "phone-sex-voice" will get answers out of anybody. ;)
>
>deeann m.m. mikula
When I called, they first said that there was a BGP peering problem, and
the answers got more vague from then on. I didn't try the phone-sex-voice
though. Maybe I'll do that today!!
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