Famous operational issues

Fri Feb 19 05:27:04 UTC 2021

One day I got called into the office supplies area because there was a
smell of something burning. Uh-oh.

To make a long story short there was a stainless steel bowl which was
focusing the sun from a window such that it was igniting a cardboard
box.

Talk about SMH and random bad luck which could have been a lot worse,
nothing really happened other than some smoke and char.

On February 18, 2021 at 01:07 eric.kuhnke at gmail.com (Eric Kuhnke) wrote:
 > On that note, I'd be very interested in hearing stories of actual incidents
 > that are the cause of why cardboard boxes are banned in many facilities, due to
 > loose particulate matter getting into the air and setting off very sensitive
 > fire detection systems.
 > 
 > Or maybe it's more mundane and 99% of the reason is people unpack stuff and
 > don't always clean up properly after themselves.
 > 
 > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 6:21 PM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
 > 
 >     Stolen isn’t nearly as exciting as what happens when your (used) 6509
 >     arrives and
 >     gets installed and operational before anyone realizes that the conductive
 >     packing
 >     peanuts that it was packed in have managed to work their way into various
 >     midplane
 >     connectors. Several hours later someone notices that the box is quite
 >     literally
 >     smoldering in the colo and the resulting combination of panic, fire drill,
 >     and
 >     management antics that ensue.
 > 
 >     Owen
 > 
 > 
 >     > On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
 >     >
 >     > I was thinking about how we need a war stories nanog track. My favorite
 >     was being on call when the router was stolen.
 >     >
 >     > Sent from my TI-99/4a
 >     >
 >     >> On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:40 PM, John Kristoff <jtk at 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
 > 
 > 

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        -Barry Shein

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