Re: Famous operational issues

[bzs () theworld com]

One day I got called into the office supplies area because there was a
smell of something burning. Uh-oh.

To make a long story short there was a stainless steel bowl which was
focusing the sun from a window such that it was igniting a cardboard
box.

Talk about SMH and random bad luck which could have been a lot worse,
nothing really happened other than some smoke and char.

On February 18, 2021 at 01:07 eric.kuhnke () gmail com (Eric Kuhnke) wrote:
> On that note, I'd be very interested in hearing stories of actual incidents
> that are the cause of why cardboard boxes are banned in many facilities, due to
> loose particulate matter getting into the air and setting off very sensitive
> fire detection systems.
>
> Or maybe it's more mundane and 99% of the reason is people unpack stuff and
> don't always clean up properly after themselves.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 6:21 PM Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
>
>     Stolen isn’t nearly as exciting as what happens when your (used) 6509
>     arrives and
>     gets installed and operational before anyone realizes that the conductive
>     packing
>     peanuts that it was packed in have managed to work their way into various
>     midplane
>     connectors. Several hours later someone notices that the box is quite
>     literally
>     smoldering in the colo and the resulting combination of panic, fire drill,
>     and
>     management antics that ensue.
>
>     Owen
>
>
>     > On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:
>     >
>     > I was thinking about how we need a war stories nanog track. My favorite
>     was being on call when the router was stolen.
>     >
>     > Sent from my TI-99/4a
>     >
>     >> On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:40 PM, John Kristoff <jtk () dataplane org> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Friends,
>     >>
>     >> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
>     >> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
>     >> have seen.
>     >>
>     >> Which examples would make up your top three?
>     >>
>     >> To get things started, I'd suggest the AS 7007 event is perhaps  the
>     >> most notorious and likely to top many lists including mine.  So if
>     >> that is one for you I'm asking for just two more.
>     >>
>     >> I'm particularly interested in this as the first step in developing a
>     >> future NANOG session.  I'd be particularly interested in any issues
>     >> that also identify key individuals that might still be around and
>     >> interested in participating in a retrospective.  I already have someone
>     >> that is willing to talk about AS 7007, which shouldn't be hard to guess
>     >> who.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
>     >>
>     >> John

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        -Barry Shein

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