[96128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Wed Apr 18 01:31:51 2007
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:17:18 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4624DC6D.2080101@nrg4u.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Andre Oppermann wrote:
>
> Audie Onibala wrote:
>> Yesterday on 04/16/07 between 3:00 - 3:45 PM we had sporadic Internet
>> problem. Our ISP's are Sprint and Qwest.
>
> Around that time there was quite a bit sunspot activity and the moon
> had an unusual position too. The NOC contacts of your ISP's probably
> may be of more specific help. But make sure to ask them for their
> networks SPF (sunspot protection factor). That's an important metric
> to qualify their network reliability.
Are you sure it was sunspots? My NOC contacts were seeing substantial
memory corruption due to cosmic rays.
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