Re: cisco.com

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, hank () efes iucc ac il wrote:

> a) they were smoking something and indeed decided to use EIGRP rather than
> BGP.
>
> b) they were testing out 4 byte ASNs and had a software issue in their IOS
>
> c) someone in Cisco wanted to download a new IOS and got frustrated with
> their new site so he/she pulled the plug.  Kudos to that brave Cisco
> employee.

I'm assuming that the outage this morning was catastrophic enough that 
whoever in their IT/Neteng group was working on this couldn't open a TAC 
case, or there were problems opening the case and then calling back into 
the TAC to get it escalated to priority 1.  I might be half-kidding :)

jms