Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> writes:
i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs and that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad publicity. -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY
That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years. Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum. We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk densities since the last maximum (March 2000). Speccing ECC memory is a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the past (anyone remember the Sun UltraSPARC CPUs that had problems last time around?) and will no doubt bite us again. Rob Seastrom, AI4UC