[Outages-discussion] [outages] TWC outage

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Kumari" <warren at kumari.net>

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Mitch Patterson
> <mitpatterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure how much I buy that. Must have been major routine maitiance
> > to have
> > that wide of an affect
> 
> Not necessarily -- screwing things up royally from a single device is
> not impossible / hard.
> 
> For example, that classic example of this is managing to redistribute
> BGP into your IGP. Then there is the "I'll just change the policy on
> this one route reflector and, oh goodness me, I just set local-pref to
> 1 on all prefixes from $some_peer. That can't be good..." game. There
> is also the "This control-plane policer ACL is ugly. I'll refactor it
> to make it prettier.... 'k, I need port 22 for SSH, and 161 for SNMP.
> What's this random port 179? Must be a typo, I'll move it lower in the
> filter..." option.
> There are also all sorts of vendor bugs you can tickle, etc.
> 
> W
> 
> >
> > On Aug 27, 2014 9:19 AM, "Frank Bulk (iname.com)"
> > <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From CNN breaking news:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's largest cable and broadband
> >> providers, suffered a nationwide Internet outage early today,
> >> sparking new
> >> complaints about the company's service. Time Warner Cable said the
> >> outage
> >> occurred at 4:30 a.m. ET "during our routine network maintenance."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "An issue with our Internet backbone created disruption with our
> >> Internet
> >> and On Demand services," the company said in a statement.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "As of 6 a.m. ET, services were largely restored as updates
> >> continue to
> >> bring all customers back online," the company added.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Josh
> >> Luthman via Outages
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:00 AM
> >> To: Mitch
> >> Cc: outages at outages.org
> >> Subject: Re: [outages] TWC outage
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> This seems to have been fixed in the last 30 seconds. Master ticket
> >> 4004407.
> >>
> >> Josh Luthman
> >> Office: 937-552-2340
> >> Direct: 937-552-2343
> >> 1100 Wayne St
> >> Suite 1337
> >> Troy, OH 45373
> >>
> >> On Aug 27, 2014 6:56 AM, "Mitch Patterson via Outages"
> >> <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm being told that TWC's entire foot print went dark and TAC has
> >> no clue
> >> whats going on
> >>
> >>
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> 
> --
> I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad
> idea in the first place.
> This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
> regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
> of pants.
> ---maf
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"The Internet is the only human endeavour in which a single-character
typographical error in a configuration file on a computer on the other
side of the planet can completely disable your corporate network."

I forget who's responsible for that observation, made, I think, in the
wake of the Turkish Youtube hijacking?

Cheers,
-- jra
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