I guess this is good that it was not some backhoe in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean. People have no idea how those bits get around the world.
The bit bucket stops here. As always, bugs are never what you thought.
And that is my guiding life principle. Suppositions are powerful, but reality
will always be more interesting and never what we supposed.
WayneS - long time bugger slayer and former crucified programmer
At 05:21 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:
>Ok, a day and a half later we finally got things solved. Unbeknown to us, a
>programming error in a fiber terminal elsewhere in the state caused an OC-48
>to go haywire. It was triggering alarms, but the alarms were buried in with
>the rest of them. We thought it was still related to the fiber cuts, but in
>reality it was a FOURTH simultaneous problem we had no clue existed because
>the person doing it worked for another company and we were unaware that they
>were making a configuration change yesterday.
>
>Go figure.
>
>Maybe my weekend will be quieter.
>
>AG
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