[44706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Mon Dec 10 12:21:30 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:18:48 -0700
From: Joel Baker <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112101020120.16667-100000@s1.yuriev.com>; from alex@yuriev.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:21:55AM -0500
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:21:55AM -0500, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > Jeff "Ampersand" Rizzo. For teaching us all just *why* it is that you don't
> > want to redistribute BGP into your IGP. Or so goes the tale relayed to me.
> > While I worked at the relevant company at the relevant time, I didn't work
> > with the network there until a year or two later.
>
> I thought it was the op of 7007 that did that?
I don't have a timeline to know which happened first; 2551 was down, or at
least the majority of it was, for something on the order of 48-72 hours.
The rendition I heard assigned the moniker because one of the major news
outlets said that the mistake which triggered it was "like a misplaced
ampersand". It was certainly the one on the wall beside his legacy Chevy's
sombrero.
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