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Re: Netcom Outage (Was: My InfoWorld Column About NANOG)
- From: Avi Freedman
- Date: Fri Jun 21 17:52:52 1996
> Can other big parts of the backbone fall down and take 13 (or more) hours
> to get back up? Or is the rest of the net engineered more redundantly than
> Netcom? Should I build two backbones, each with separate technologies?
> Was this a foreshock of the coming Metcalfean Big One, or just lousy
> procedures at one of the bigger ISPs?
Maybe we should turn off a major exchange point for 6 hours as a test.
Seriously, unless you have on-staff people who are quite swift and
really understand both the architecture and the implementation bogies of
your particular IP network, it might not be a bad idea to build two
separate backbones with different technology and/or routing policy.
> Inquiring minds want to know. Right now, it appears to be just a few
> (thankfully?). And now is the time to develop communications and publicity
> strategies for this sort of thing -- along with the engineering to
> hopefully prevent them.
>
> --
> Pete Kaminski
> kaminski@nanospace.com
Avi
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