Re: Famous operational issues

On 2/16/2021 2:37 PM, John Kristoff wrote:

Friends,

I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you have seen.

Which examples would make up your top three?

I don't believe I've seen this in any of the replies, but the AT&T cascading switch crashes of 1990 is a good one. This link even has some pseudocode https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse