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Great write-up, thanks for the link. TLDR: Race condition when switches reboot during high (read normal) traffic load. I love the fact the "fix" was to reduce
by BuildTheRobots 8y ago
Great write-up, thanks for the link. TLDR: Race condition when switches reboot during high (read normal) traffic load.
I love the fact the "fix" was to reduce traffic load so that the issue was unlikely to occur and let things go back to normal.
> AT&T solved the problem by reducing the messaging load of the CCS7 network. That allowed the switches to rest themselves and the network to stabilize.
- iforgotpassword 8y agoRace conditions strike again. It's just hard, whether it's multi threading or distributed systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25