[TriLUG] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Massive Internet Outage blamed on Juniper routers

[Steve Holton]

Did anyone notice effects of this?


It's too bad we can't find some way of inter-networking our computers such
that in the event of a failure (or nuclear attack) we'd be able to
route-around
the damage...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Massive Internet Outage blamed on Juniper routers
To: nnsquad at nnsquad.org



Massive Internet Outage blamed on Juniper routers

http://j.mp/sPisRG  (Silicon)

   "A global internet outage took down sites and services across the web
    on Monday.  The outage began shortly after 2pm, and affected telco
    Time Warner Cable in the US and numerous ISPs in the UK, including
    Eclipse Internet and Easynet.  Several of the affected companies
    blamed the downtime on a problem with the firmware in Juniper Network
    routers.  "This outage has affected other networks running Juniper
    routers with the majority of them seeing their devices core dump and
    reload," affected ISP Phyber Communications said."

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Time Warner has said their entire Internet network operation was
affected by this.  I've been having connectivity problems on one of my
primary circuits since late yesterday and continuing now that may or
may not be related.  I'll see if this message makes it out.

--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator




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Steve Holton
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