[32164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 11/11/00 Internet Routing Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brett watson)
Mon Nov 13 15:12:00 2000
Message-Id: <200011131957.LAA27409@ug.mibh.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "13 Nov 2000 11:48:29 PST."
<20001113194829.1441.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:57:02 -0800
From: brett watson <bwatson@mibh.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation,
> > a senior engineer took a week off.
>
> The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most
> of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their
> networks.
>
> I have no data to back up that statement.
na... at least not dallas ietf in 1995 (i think it was '95). i
remember ravi sitting in the terminal room with myself and most of the
mci engg. group debugging a 23-day timer bug in is-is :) the network
was pretty much melting down and we were all in dallas.
-b
