Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> 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