And Verio too? (was Re: Level3 problems)

Fri Oct 21 20:36:02 UTC 2005

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:30:05PM -0600, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> 
> Authoritative sources report that Verio coincidentally had major problems 
> last night also:
> 
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/21/two_tierone_isps_are.html
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/21/0958232
>  ("is this the end for Level3?" heh)
> 
> Odd.
> 
> The last time there was major instability due to multiple backbones 
> upgrading was ... oh crap. So I'm going to get a major PSIRT "upgrade now 
> or die" notice while I'm at NANOG. Good thing Monday evening is open...

The Verio part seems to be an observational anormaly caused by
the frame of reference of the observer.

-dorian 