[28929] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Lee)
Wed May 24 15:06:13 2000
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From: Andrew Lee <AndrewL@Pointshare.com>
To: 'Paul Froutan' <pfroutan@rackspace.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:03:16 -0700
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What, you think its a coincidence that Tuesday morning there was a thread
started titled 'That pesky AS path corruption bug'?
;)
>
>
> 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!!
>
