That was me, I think, and I believe we now know that they are uncorrelated (although I'm not paying as much attention to all of this as I should). If I recall correctly, the symptoms from a few weeks ago were with the ISPs MIT connects to, not internal to MIT's own network.
I've noticed some really weird blips with ISPs in general in the past several months. Nothing I can pin down, but my working knowledge is incredibly low, so I don't know the tools. For instance, I run a Mumble server on a Linode, nothing special, and last night, all of my SF/BayArea friends had a storm of disconnect-reconnects. I didn't have time to diagnose at the time, but I doubt I would have found anything either.
