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One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX

Posted by kdawson on from the comp-dot-risks dept.

The card in question experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, said Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency. As data overloaded the system, a domino effect occurred with other computer network cards, eventually causing a total system failure. A spokeswoman for the airports agency said airport and customs officials are discussing how to handle a similar incident should it occur in the future.

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  1. The backup plan by Animats · · Score: 5, Funny

    DHS's idea of a "backup plan" will probably be to build a huge fenced area into which to dump arriving passengers when their systems are down.

  2. Re:Head of IT for LAX should be fired... by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have to find someone who can not only design a vital high-traffic network and maintain it... but who didn't have fish for dinner.

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  3. Let that be a lesson to you... by urlgrey · · Score: 3, Funny

    To all you novice net admins out there: network cards do *not* like chunky peanut butter! Smooth/creamy only, please.

    Now you see what happens when some joker thinks [s]he can get away with using chunky for something as critical as proper care and feeding of network cards. Pfft.

    Bah! Kids these days... I tell ya. Probably the same folks that think the interwebnet is the same as the World Wide Web.

    Great, Scott! What's next?!

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  4. Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Jaxoreth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Still, it was a truck.
    Which explains why it's not used in the Internet.
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