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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)
Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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
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