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'I crashed AOL for 19 hours and messed up global email for a week'
- ahazred8ta 9y agoPart of a series of Epic Fail stories https://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/who-me https://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/who-me
- bradknowles 9y agoSo, I didn’t actually crash the network itself — that was a result of a misunderstanding between the network ops team and our upstream network provider, plus a miscalculation of how long it might take to completely reload a full route table. But when the network went down, all hell broke loose in the e-mail world. They didn’t print the story exactly as I had written it, but their editing process probably did make things more clear. And shorter. So, except for the bit about me taking down the network itself, I don’t have any issues with what they published. Oh, and my name is Brad, not Bert.