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Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007

  • From: Leigh Porter
  • Date: Thu Apr 19 06:00:12 2007

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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