IOS upgrade on backbone routers (fwd)

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     This one will most likely affect us; please note that 00:00 is eastern
standard time and so this could already be affecting us and may affect us over
the next few hours. 

     The effect if we are impacted, will usually be short, it takes above five
minutes for the routers to boot and then a few more for the routes to
propogate.

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:46:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Outage Poster <postout@sprint.net>
To: outage@sprint.net
Subject: IOS upgrade on backbone routers

EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT


Purpose for maintenance: Network fix

Maintenance date: 06/25/1999

Maintenance start time: 0000

Estimated end time: 0430 EDT

Details of maintenance: We will be upgrading the IOS in several backbone
routers to alleviate a service-impacting Cisco bug. Maintainance will begin at
midnight in each time zone.

Impact to customers: Customers may experience some downtime while the network
is reconverging as these backbone routers are taken offline and reloaded.

Please bear with us as we work to resolve this issue.  We thank you for your
patience and patronage.

James Milne,
-Sprintlink NOC
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