Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

[tim.thorne () btinternet com (Tim Thorne)]

Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> But cyberspace hasn't gone senile. Those massive e-mail delays, slow
> Internet connections and downed e-businesses were all caused by a software
> upgrade that went horribly wrong at WorldCom's UUNet division, a large
> provider network communications.

After reading all the stories about what supposedly happened does
anyone know what really happened? Did UUNet US really do an IOS
upgrade on a sizable proportion of their border routers in one go?
This seems like suicide to me. What possible reason could there be for
a network-wide roll out of an untested IOS apart from being in the
mire already?

Tim