On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, David A. Snodgrass wrote:
The sprint outage list announced a lot of work being done in planned maintenance window. Aparrently sombody did an 'oops'.
Purpose for maintenance: Network buildout/enhancement
Maintenance date: 07/24/2000 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maintenance start time: 00:01 AM EDT Estimated end time: 07:00 AM EDT
I got that notice and thought maybe that was it too, until I noticed the date was a few days in the future...so I called an opened a ticket. First person I talked to played dumb (ok...maybe they didn't have to play) and said she knew of no backbone problems. If I shut down my BGP session with Sprint, and 10 minutes later, they're still propogating my route advertisements, and routing in loops, and not routing at all in some cases, I think that's a problem. About an hour later they seemed to have mostly stabilized, so I called back to tell them, "don't call me, I'll call you" and was told that "something had happened" that had forced them to reset a whole bunch of their routers. The guy made it sound as if some customer/peer might have sent Sprint a lot of routes they weren't supposed to have. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________