BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

Thu Apr 19 14:21:07 UTC 2007

Shields Up?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/19/star_trek_shield/

Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> 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
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>>>       