[30987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cablevision/OptimumOnline Long Island - massive outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Sep 3 22:04:11 2000
Date: 3 Sep 2000 19:02:23 -0700
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To: kai@pac-rim.net
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 03 September 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote:
> What could bring down such a large cable system in parts and repeatedly
> for many hours at a time is beyond me: one of my SSH sessions just
In my experience, its usually a combination of operator error and hardware
problems. I've accidently killed a network for 8+ hours. Its amazing how
a system can appear to be very stable, and then become irrecoverable after
an apparently insignificant change.
