Re: Yahoo outage summary

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
> the space of routing data validation is large, we can explore it at our
> leisure, and we have been for some years.  but my point was that it is
> silly to indulge in conjecturbation on the cause of the recent event and
> excoriate l(3), hanaro, or john curran's grandmother until we have heard
> from the folk who have actual data.

If companies thought it was in their self-interest, they might actually
share that actual data.  However history has shown over and over again
that companies generally avoid any public discussion about their problems
until they are overwhelmed.

http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1327791.php/Yahoo_outage_caused_by_Level3_BGP_issue

If you wait for the companies to reveal the data, you will probably have
a long wait.

WorldCom still hasn't released its official investigative report into why 
its national frame networks failed for nearly a week in 1999.