Re: qwest outage no notice

[JoeSox <joesox () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:06 AM,  <sthaug () nethelp no> wrote:
> > We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I called
> > to report it I was told it was a 200+ emergency software upgrade due to
> > a security concern, and that we will get a notice later after the fact.
> > Normally we get notices in advance, even for software upgrades due to
> > security or other important issues, so I am curious if other qwest
> > customers had the same experience and wether this is how it's going to
> > be from here on in? The affected platform was juniper and I'd love to
> > know the specfic case being addressed here.
>
> We received 7 Juniper Security Advisories today. My guess is that this
> is the reason for the Qwest outage you've seen.


My QWest account manager called three different people at my business
7hrs before the maintenance. Also mentioned the Juniper Security
Advisories.
-- 
Later, Joe