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Re: Famous operational issues


From: Andrew Gallo <akg1330 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:04:27 -0500



On 2/16/2021 2:37 PM, John Kristoff 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?


I don't believe I've seen this in any of the replies, but the AT&T cascading switch crashes of 1990 is a good one. This link even has some pseudocode
https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse


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