[52574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Thorne)
Sat Oct 5 08:28:13 2002
From: tim.thorne@btinternet.com (Tim Thorne)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: sean@donelan.com
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:30:36 GMT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210041431130.3167-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>But cyberspace hasn't gone senile. Those massive e-mail delays, slow
>Internet connections and downed e-businesses were all caused by a =
software
>upgrade that went horribly wrong at WorldCom's UUNet division, a large
>provider network communications.
After reading all the stories about what supposedly happened does
anyone know what really happened? Did UUNet US really do an IOS
upgrade on a sizable proportion of their border routers in one go?
This seems like suicide to me. What possible reason could there be for
a network-wide roll out of an untested IOS apart from being in the
mire already?
Tim
