Oh. http://www.aol.com/about/updates/1996/960808.html Bummer. I wonder what kind of routers and switches they were... :( -alan ......... alan is rumored to have said: ] From alan Thu Aug 8 23:06:54 1996 ] Subject: aol ] To: nanog@merit.edu ] Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 23:06:54 -0500 (CDT) ] X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] ] MIME-Version: 1.0 ] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ] Content-Length: 450 ] ] ] Howdy, ] ] I was waiting for someone to bring this up, but it didn't happen. ] ] The "19 hour" outage of AOL was attributed to a new network ] operating system update, by at least one media story I read. I'm ] curious is there're any interesting lessons from this for the rest ] of us? Was it a goof like putting BGP into OSPF? Was it bad ] code? Was it just goofy? ] ] -alan ] ] ps who is dissapointed he's not plugged in enough to just "know" ] ]