Re: UUNet?

[Paul Froutan <pfroutan () rackspace com>]

At 5/24/00 -0400, you wrote:

> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jeff Wheat wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what happened on Monday? Seems like it has been hushed
> > up as I can find no information about
> > it anywhere. Contacting UUNet results in them telling us that their
> > legal department is working on a press release...
>
> i just called UUnet, and basically asked nicely "what happened on
> monday, around 5pm...?"
>
> the support person looked at the logs for my links, and said that they
> appeared stable at that point.  i pressed a little more "don't you
> have any network status reports for monday?  did someone trip over a
> switch or something?"
>
> he said, "oh yah monday!  someone nuked some routing tables, that's
> right...like 50,000 customers were out, our call queue was crazy!"
>
> the "phone-sex-voice" will get answers out of anybody. ;)
>
> deeann m.m. mikula


When I called, they first said that there was a BGP peering problem, and 
the answers got more vague from then on.  I didn't try the phone-sex-voice 
though.  Maybe I'll do that today!!

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