[44405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT monopoly causes widespread network failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Nov 23 11:17:51 2001
Message-Id: <200111231617.fANGH4gi020928@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Terence <terry@tdce.com.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:03:41 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:17:04 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:03:41 EST, Terence said:
> Had this Telstra tech in my Spring Hill CO a while back, he was splicing
> fibre for a Telstra run into the CO. Merrily tells me how, just
> yesterday, he's splicing foc 150km north of Brisbane, and woops, gets the
> main run by accident, isolating 1000's of services...
So was the incident more like:
"<snip><splice><snip><whoops><splice><hope nobody noticed><snip><splice>"
or
"Well, that 'S' in the circuit number *looked* like a 5. I guess I better
drive back out and fix it, huh?"
;)
