BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
Leigh Porter
leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com
Thu Apr 19 09:58:11 UTC 2007
Somebody form a certain large network vendor actually blamed problems
with their kit on cosmic rays causing memory corruption...
--
Leigh Porter
Jay Hennigan wrote:
>
> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>
>> Audie Onibala wrote:
>>> Yesterday on 04/16/07 between 3:00 - 3:45 PM we had sporadic
>>> Internet problem. Our ISP's are Sprint and Qwest.
>>
>> Around that time there was quite a bit sunspot activity and the moon
>> had an unusual position too. The NOC contacts of your ISP's probably
>> may be of more specific help. But make sure to ask them for their
>> networks SPF (sunspot protection factor). That's an important metric
>> to qualify their network reliability.
>
> Are you sure it was sunspots? My NOC contacts were seeing substantial
> memory corruption due to cosmic rays.
>
>
> --
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