[33948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: History: lengthy outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Jan 25 13:34:25 2001
Date: 25 Jan 2001 10:31:42 -0800
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To: randy@psg.com
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 25 January 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> UUNET cisco/bay router problems: November 7 1997 lasted 5 hours
> > /vijay "remembering entirely too well" gill
>
> if this is 129/8, then i believe that major providers were down for almost
> two days.
That was a different one, but I didn't have that data readily available.
The cisco/bay bug I was thinking of was when Cisco's kept reseting all
their BGP sessions when they saw a particular announcement from Bay routers.
There are a whole bunch of interesting problems I remember, but can't
find the date.
There was the Sprint "0.0.0.0" route problem. There was the 129/8 which
happened shortly after AS7007. There was an ANS bug in the ENSSs which
knocked them out.
I tried not to include "malicious" acts, such as DDOS since I think they
should be considered separately. Although I recognize often the underlying
cause of the security issue may be related to operational error or bugs.
