Re: UUNET instability?

["Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden () geek net>]

Sometimes it feels like the support departments just scan cnn.com to find
a catastrophe to blame an outtage on.

"A butterfly in outter mongolia flapped its wings" will probably be cited
before long...

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:

> That's unusual.  A train derailment usually effects more than one
> provider, and normally does not cause network-wide BGP resets.
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Daniel Kelley wrote:
> > UUNET support says that the outage relates to a train derailment in the
> > northeast that occured this morning.  master ticket no. 562655.
> >
> > dan
> >
> > > Anyone else seeing routing instability through UUNET or have any more
> > > details?  I saw a significant drop in my inbound and outbound traffic to
> > > them around 10:00AM EDT.  UUNET has a prompt on their phone menus about
> > > network instability, but didn't elaborate.  Their NOC doesn't have any
> > > more details as of yet that they're passing along.
> > >
> > > jms