* Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> wrote: > Did anyone else see an explosion on the Level3 network this morning? > They've been up and down all morning since around 2:30 eastern time... > just recovered recently.
>From the e-mail notification I received from Level 3 (~13 hours before the start of the maintenance window): "Emergency Maintenance Advisement - This maintenance is scheduled." ... and ... "Level 3 Communications will perform a mandatory network upgrade that will be service impacting and will impact devices in multiple locations. We are upgrading the code on portions of the global network to increase stability for the overall network. During this maintenance activity customers may be impacted for approximately 30 minutes." My own guess is that they wanted to quickly get their gear upgraded so that they weren't caught with their pants down like the last time such a vulnerability was announced. In that case, someone posted (previously unknown) exploit details to the full-disclosure mailing list, forcing many to to delay patching any longer: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jan/136 On a side note: if you ever want to receive a ton of hate mail from engineers at large companies and telcos, that's a good way to do it. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis e: [email protected] Network Engineer m: +1.812.865.0581 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
