Re: Cogent Router code updates during height of ecommerce season?

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 12/9/16 11:30 AM, Justin Wilson wrote:
> Are they not doing these during maintenance windows? Anytime we get a notice from Cogent, Level3, Att they are always 
> during a maintenance window at least a week ahead of time.  We have yet to see any maintenance window notifications 
> from Hurricane Electric.  Maybe our circuit has never had to have one in a few years. Or maybe they have so much 
> redundancy it doesn’t matter and we never see the maintenance.  
FWIW I have a few Cogent circuits, The maintenance look normalish and
are all scheduled per their normal process, I aware of at least one
cisco bug related to source mac usage they had that was annoying if not
catastrophic since it was visible on our ports.
> Justin Wilson
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> > On Dec 8, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Over the last several days we have had interruptions at multiple times in our service with Cogent due to them 
> > performing router code updates on multiple nodes. I know that some companies put these sorts of updates on hold 
> > during the holiday season but I was wondering if anyone has heard of any unannounced security flaws that only larger 
> > companies such as Cogent would be privy to?
> >
> > I am certain that if you have heard of these flaws you cannot post the details but a simple yes or no about the 
> > existence of such a thing is plenty for me.
> >
> > Happy Holidays
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Drew

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