RE: UUNet?

[Andrew Lee <AndrewL () Pointshare com>]

What, you think its a coincidence that Tuesday morning there was a thread
started titled 'That pesky AS path corruption bug'?

;)
> 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!!