North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Statement of WorldCom, Inc. on Nasdaq Network Service Interruption
its not just uunet then ! At 12:13 AM 30/06/01 -0400, Brian Wallingford wrote: > >:It appears Worldcom is learning. A few years ago when Worldcom had >:an outage affecting the Chicago Board of Trade, Mr. Ebbers didn't make >:a public statement for over a week. This time Worldcom had a public >:statement in less than five hours. > >It appears that they're learning that public disclosure is necessary for >high-profile problems that will inevitably be picked up quickly by the AP >or others. > >The ten-thousand dollar question is who authorized _development testing_ >on a production network at 2:30pm - NASDAQ or Wcom? "Routine testing" at >2:30pm? Or was it a fluke related to a problem with personnel >management? > >Will the press accept Bernie's quote and forget the incident? Probably. > >:BTW, did anyone ever receive an actual explaination for what happened >:two years ago when Worldcom lost their frame-relay? I never did. > >Nothing beyond the standard upgrade-gone-wrong stuff. I have yet to find >details as simple as to which sw ver they were upgrading from, and >upgrading to. Information which, combined with subsequent events, could >certainly aid others. It would be interesting to at least learn if they >attempted to do a batch upgrade, or if they staggered upgrades, but ran >into database inconsistencies related to the upgrade. > >cheers, >brian > >
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