[outages] RIM/L3 Issues?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> said:
> Likely, it's the Great Juniper Outage of 2011, which has been being
> covered mostly on NANOG all morning, cause Outages had indigestion. 
> 
> Routers dumping core, root cause not yet specified; known to have affected
> Level3, and TWTelecom, among other backbone carriers.

It is reported to be a known issue for which Juniper issued a PSN 3
months ago.  If that's the case, you can't really blame Juniper when
they tell people "here's a bug, you should upgrade", and some don't heed
their advice (especially when you are paying for that advice).

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.