[96134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Apr 19 10:18:47 2007
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>,
Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:17:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <46273D33.3050809@ukbroadband.com> (Leigh Porter's message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:58:11 +0100")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during the last
sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and acknowledged
by Sun), so don't laugh too hard.
---rob
Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> writes:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
>> Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
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