Cisco IOS Vulnerability

Thu Jul 17 17:51:23 UTC 2003

>This was rumored to be a backhoe fade but the advisory refers only to
>IP services and there was nothing in the popular press about any major
>phone outage, so I have my suspicions.  Usually if there's a fiber cut
>they say so.  About this time is when all of the major backbones began
>flooding the net with their notices of panic upgrades.

I have unconfirmed reports from last night that Qwest had major phone
and IP outages in California last night.  Secondhand report from their
voice support folks as 'systemwide within california'.  A physical 
failure was indicated but not described.

I wasn't able to find a report on the web at the time, though.
I haven't gone back today and looked in more detail.

Phantom of the Backhoe?

-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com