Re: Famous operational issues

[Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer was interesting in that it was an
application-layer issue that affected the network layer.

Damian

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:37 AM John Kristoff <jtk () dataplane org> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
> have seen.
>
> Which examples would make up your top three?
>
> To get things started, I'd suggest the AS 7007 event is perhaps  the
> most notorious and likely to top many lists including mine.  So if
> that is one for you I'm asking for just two more.
>
> I'm particularly interested in this as the first step in developing a
> future NANOG session.  I'd be particularly interested in any issues
> that also identify key individuals that might still be around and
> interested in participating in a retrospective.  I already have someone
> that is willing to talk about AS 7007, which shouldn't be hard to guess
> who.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
>
> John