Famous operational issues

Tue Feb 16 22:08:22 UTC 2021

I was thinking about how we need a war stories nanog track. My favorite was being on call when the router was stolen. 

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> On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:40 PM, John Kristoff <jtk at dataplane.org> wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
> have seen.
> 
> Which examples would make up your top three?
> 
> To get things started, I'd suggest the AS 7007 event is perhaps  the
> most notorious and likely to top many lists including mine.  So if
> that is one for you I'm asking for just two more.
> 
> I'm particularly interested in this as the first step in developing a
> future NANOG session.  I'd be particularly interested in any issues
> that also identify key individuals that might still be around and
> interested in participating in a retrospective.  I already have someone
> that is willing to talk about AS 7007, which shouldn't be hard to guess
> who.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
> 
> John