[MAINT,YANO] Yet Another Network Outage

[Liz]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:13:13 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I appologize again for the 16 hour outage.  Comcast, my network
> provider, inadvertantly double-booked a net-block and assigned me the
> same block as another customer.  So the outages over the past few days
> have been the result of that customer and I fighting it out.  I
> finally got to someone last night who determined the actual problem,
> but as a result I got renumbered.  As a result of the renumbering I
> had to get a number of other pointers updated to the new address and
> that finally took as of a few minutes ago.
> 
> SO.... Packets are now flowing again, and HOPEFULLY we wont have this
> kind of outage again.  *fingers crossed*
> 
> Again, I am very sorry for the inconvenience.  Hopefully this will be
> the last one.  (at least until the power outages start ;)
> 
> -derek, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin.

thanks Derek, that must have taken hours on the telephone to get that
fixed.