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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:15:25AM -0800, Clayton Fiske wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:18:48AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > I don't have a timeline to know which happened first; 2551 was down, or at > > least the majority of it was, for something on the order of 48-72 hours. > > The rendition I heard assigned the moniker because one of the major news > > outlets said that the mistake which triggered it was "like a misplaced > > ampersand". It was certainly the one on the wall beside his legacy Chevy's > > sombrero. > > My oh my, how the versions differ. > > As was recounted to me, the outage was about 19 hours, and was due to > the semantics of Cisco config mode. Something like: > > router ospf 1234 > redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah > > (everything fine, now let's turn it off...) > > no redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah > > So tell me, does this turn off the redistribution, or just remove the > route-map... :) > > And this is certainly worth remembering. Had I not known of this, I > could likely have made the same mistake at some point. Interesting. I wonder if we're discussing two separate events. The one I knew of supposedly involved a regex with a misplaced .*, which seems like a fairly fundamentally different lesson. Both valuble, though... (and thus is demonstrated one of the hazards of a purely oral tradition... human memories are notorious for showing all of the properties of most complex neural networks, including partial matching triggering more than one pattern...) -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [email protected] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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