[59680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco IOS Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Thu Jul 17 13:51:31 2003
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: gherbert@gw.retro.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:51:23 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>This was rumored to be a backhoe fade but the advisory refers only to
>IP services and there was nothing in the popular press about any major
>phone outage, so I have my suspicions. Usually if there's a fiber cut
>they say so. About this time is when all of the major backbones began
>flooding the net with their notices of panic upgrades.
I have unconfirmed reports from last night that Qwest had major phone
and IP outages in California last night. Secondhand report from their
voice support folks as 'systemwide within california'. A physical
failure was indicated but not described.
I wasn't able to find a report on the web at the time, though.
I haven't gone back today and looked in more detail.
Phantom of the Backhoe?
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com
