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 <j...@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 >
