[96135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Apr 19 10:25:43 2007
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:21:07 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>,
Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <86y7kov46q.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Shields Up?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/star_trek_shield/
Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> 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/
>>> Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
>>>
