[96132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Apr 19 05:59:14 2007
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:58:11 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Cc: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4625A9DE.4060804@west.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Somebody form a certain large network vendor actually blamed problems
with their kit on cosmic rays causing memory corruption...
--
Leigh Porter
Jay Hennigan wrote:
>
> 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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