Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

[Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>]

Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Audie Onibala wrote:
> > Yesterday on 04/16/07 between 3:00 - 3:45 PM we had sporadic Internet 
> > problem.  Our ISP's are Sprint and Qwest.
>
> Around that time there was quite a bit sunspot activity and the moon
> had an unusual position too.  The NOC contacts of your ISP's probably
> may be of more specific help.  But make sure to ask them for their
> networks SPF (sunspot protection factor).  That's an important metric
> to qualify their network reliability.

Are you sure it was sunspots?  My NOC contacts were seeing substantial 
memory corruption due to cosmic rays.


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