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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. > > -c Ye gods. Guess I'd better keep a closer eye on NANOG. For the record: This version (Clay's) is more or less correct. :) The "oops" was pretty much *exactly* that... removing a route-map when intending to remove a redistribution. In my defense, however, we discovered the problem fairly quickly, but OSPF bug extant in IOS 10.whatever that we were running prevented us from cleaning it up in a timely manner. We basically wound up partitioning the network and rebooting *every* ospf-speaking device on it, because they were getting poisoned with gobs of LSA data that was never getting cleared, and was propagating the bogus information. Also for the record: I have *no idea* where Bob Metcalfe got that "ampersand" thing. It did make for an amusing engraving on a going-away gift I was given some years later: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&................!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) +j -- Jeff Rizzo http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz
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