Re: Famous operational issues

[Joe <jbfixurpc () gmail com>]

If were just talking about outages historically, I recall the 1996 AOL
Email debacle, not really anything to do with network mishaps but more so
DNS configuration..

As well, I believe the North East 2003 blackout was a great DR test that no
one was expecting.

Of course we also have the big non-events too such as Y2K....

Regards
-Joe B.


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:38 PM John Kristoff <jtk () dataplane org> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
> have seen.
>
> Which examples would make up your top three?
>
> To get things started, I'd suggest the AS 7007 event is perhaps  the
> most notorious and likely to top many lists including mine.  So if
> that is one for you I'm asking for just two more.
>
> I'm particularly interested in this as the first step in developing a
> future NANOG session.  I'd be particularly interested in any issues
> that also identify key individuals that might still be around and
> interested in participating in a retrospective.  I already have someone
> that is willing to talk about AS 7007, which shouldn't be hard to guess
> who.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
>
> John