[93286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Sun Nov 5 21:28:04 2006
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:27:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20061105211111.A17105@calis.blacksun.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> As for the LSA issue- rebooting would have fixed the problem, assuming it was
> done by all nodes at the same time. All of the Link State tables would have
> been rebuilt from scratch by the IMPs and the corrupt announcements would
> have been gone.
Turns out this is actually mentioned on page 14 of RFC 789.
> As I recall the IMP software was actually patched to ignore the problematic
> announcements from IMP 51.
Not that it matters- but it was IMP 50 not 51.
-Don
