BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

Robert E. Seastrom rs at seastrom.com
Thu Apr 19 14:17:49 UTC 2007



With certain susceptible Sun CPUs which were popular during the last
sunspot maxima, this was actually demonstrably true (and acknowledged
by Sun), so don't laugh too hard.

                                        ---rob

Leigh Porter <leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com> writes:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
>> Impulse Internet Service  -  http://www.impulse.net/
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