Re: Famous operational issues

[Todd Underwood <toddunder () gmail com>]

There are all the hilarious leaks and blocks.

Pakistan blocks youtube and the announcement leaks internet-wide.
Turk telecom (AS9121 IIRC) leaks a full table out one of their providers.

So many routing level incidents they're probably not even interesting any
more,  I suppose.

The huge power outages in the US northeast in 2003 (
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.183.998&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
were pretty decent.



On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:02 PM Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> 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