[Outages-discussion] [outages] Verizon west coast outage?

[Larry Sheldon]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote (on "outages"):
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:55:30PM -0500, Forestal, Andre Jr. wrote:
>> When routers have problems, they are designed to report that they are
>> sick. Internet traffic is rerouted to adjacent routers automatically and
>> sent around the trouble spot. In this case, that didn't happen. The
>> router went into a hung state and did not appear to the rest of the
>> network as though it was having problems.
> 
> It appears BFD is a protocol foreign to Verizon.  And why didn't hold
> timers expire on associated iBGP peers?  Questions, questions...

I was thinking, in the old days (I worked "Telegraph", the "L", "N", and 
"R" carrier) we would have all been fired if we didn't have a 
restoration route up-and-running in about 4 minutes.

40 minutes?!!?  Are you sh*tting me?
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