Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

[Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>]

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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