[44708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Fiske)
Mon Dec 10 14:16:43 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:15:25 -0800
From: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20011210101848.A2774@lightbearer.com>; from lucifer@lightbearer.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:18:48AM -0700
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:18:48AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
>
> 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.
My oh my, how the versions differ.
As was recounted to me, the outage was about 19 hours, and was due to
the semantics of Cisco config mode. Something like:
router ospf 1234
redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah
(everything fine, now let's turn it off...)
no redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah
So tell me, does this turn off the redistribution, or just remove the
route-map... :)
And this is certainly worth remembering. Had I not known of this, I
could likely have made the same mistake at some point.
-c
