On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:15:25AM -0800, Clayton Fiske wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:18:48AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
I don't have a timeline to know which happened first; 2551 was down, or at least the majority of it was, for something on the order of 48-72 hours. The rendition I heard assigned the moniker because one of the major news outlets said that the mistake which triggered it was "like a misplaced ampersand". It was certainly the one on the wall beside his legacy Chevy's sombrero.
My oh my, how the versions differ.
As was recounted to me, the outage was about 19 hours, and was due to the semantics of Cisco config mode. Something like:
router ospf 1234 redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah
(everything fine, now let's turn it off...)
no redistribute bgp subnets route-map blah
So tell me, does this turn off the redistribution, or just remove the route-map... :)
And this is certainly worth remembering. Had I not known of this, I could likely have made the same mistake at some point.
Interesting. I wonder if we're discussing two separate events. The one I knew of supposedly involved a regex with a misplaced .*, which seems like a fairly fundamentally different lesson. Both valuble, though... (and thus is demonstrated one of the hazards of a purely oral tradition... human memories are notorious for showing all of the properties of most complex neural networks, including partial matching triggering more than one pattern...) -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/