[97813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo outage summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jul 9 12:45:51 2007
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:45:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <469262C5.6080506@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
> the space of routing data validation is large, we can explore it at our
> leisure, and we have been for some years. but my point was that it is
> silly to indulge in conjecturbation on the cause of the recent event and
> excoriate l(3), hanaro, or john curran's grandmother until we have heard
> from the folk who have actual data.
If companies thought it was in their self-interest, they might actually
share that actual data. However history has shown over and over again
that companies generally avoid any public discussion about their problems
until they are overwhelmed.
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1327791.php/Yahoo_outage_caused_by_Level3_BGP_issue
If you wait for the companies to reveal the data, you will probably have
a long wait.
WorldCom still hasn't released its official investigative report into why
its national frame networks failed for nearly a week in 1999.
