Brief Internet Outage Caused by Juniper Firmware Update

[exfileme]

The brief internet downtime experienced on Monday was caused by an update bug in Juniper router firmware.

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[blade061188]

the brief glitch caused by the router update on Monday leads us to wonder just how easy it would be for a terrorist to take down the entire global internet by injecting a malicious update. Scary.

A little sensationalist to jump from a 30 second downtime due to a firmware update, to terrorist attack...

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

watching kittens via YouTube

Sums up perfectly what the majority of people (read: idiots) are doing on the net.

 

[therabiddeer]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]Sums up perfectly what the majority of people (read: idiots) are doing on the net.[/citation]
Whats wrong with watching kittens on youtube? It is cute and entertaining.

 

[-Fran-]

[citation][nom]blade061188[/nom]A little sensationalist to jump from a 30 second downtime due to a firmware update, to terrorist attack...[/citation]

Well, you hack things better when they're booting up and not fully "aware" (if you want to call it that) 8)

Cheers!

 

[hoof_hearted]

The Chinese are taking note

 

[CaedenV]

Isn't the whole idea of the internet for things to be redundant for multiple routes to be made in the event of hardware failure? anywho, it dosnt sound too terrible.

In other news; I love the new Tom's layout! Way to go back to a more classic look of things!

 

[zorky9]

[citation][nom]therabiddeer[/nom]Whats wrong with watching kittens on youtube? It is cute and entertaining.[/citation]
meow that

 

[STravis]

This is a cover up - just like they said that 3 mile island was a nuclear incident (when we know full well what happened with Weapon 11)

 

[Ichy]

@blade .... just because watching videos of unbelievable cute kittens doing random things is addictive as all hell doesn't mean that the majority of people that do are idiots.

 

[phasmantis]

[citation][nom]therabiddeer[/nom]Whats wrong with watching kittens on youtube? It is cute and entertaining.[/citation]

Haven't you heard? It's only productive to comment on Tom's articles!

 

[Guest]

While some of the terms used within this article are accurate, the overall description is not even close to reality. The problem stems from the fact that few people truly understand that there is no "Internet". There is only a large network made up of interconnections of other private networks. Many of those networks are run by large telecommunications companies such as Level3. In this case some of the networks are using Juniper Networks routers, and a subset of those were running software affected by this software issue. This was nowhere close to an "Internet" outage. Some people lost their only connection to the network at large, or lost reachability to some set of sites.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]blade061188[/nom]A little sensationalist to jump from a 30 second downtime due to a firmware update, to terrorist attack...[/citation]
fear Fear FEAR!!!

Its what the media is best at.

 

[SOSTrooper]

Ironically, the company made the problem known via Twitter (seriously?).

Nothing wrong with updates from Twitter. It's the new way to pass information quickly and to communicate between big companies and little people. So I actually give them props for reporting the problem right away, rather than issuing a generic statement a day afterward explaining what happened.

 

[bison88]

So yesterdays big news story fuss was over a 30 second downtime? Oh brother.

 

[alidan]

so, 10-15 seconds of down time... and it made big news?

its common for me to be out of internet for 1-5 minutes at a time mutipul times a day, most likely router or modems fault, but o well.

how is this major news? and dont tell me everything that may be effected by a down time of 10-30 seconds, because realisticly, if a hospital only has 10-30 seconds to save you, they arent looking up and reading a detailed medical record, they have the time to get the physical file if they need it, its only convenience

 

[pwnorbpwnd]

You mad about our piracy Time Warner?

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]Sums up perfectly what the majority of people (read: idiots) are doing on the net.[/citation]
So to you, the majority of people are idiots? It must be lonely up there...

 

[dfusco]

It knocked my VOIP for a loop.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

What was that 'bout cloud computing being the future?

 

[Nightsilver]

Lol. An internet outage that spanned the amount of time it takes for the average Tom's reader to breathe in and out through their mouths made the news. Hilarious.

 

[borisof007]

HERP DERP let's dump our entire BGP tables when we update, there shouldn't be any problems right?

 

[bebangs]

watching 10 hours of Nyan cat via YouTube.

there fixed it.

 

[eddieroolz]

I did not notice...did the outage cover Canada?

 

[nebun]

i can't connect to the web....i don't know what to do with myself...we have become addicted and the drug is the web, very sad