[10831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Network Outages (was: AlterNic antics)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Carter)
Tue Jul 15 16:51:45 1997
From: Steve Carter <scarter@genuity.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:26:11 -0700
George,
My 2 pence worth: Networks do not crash of their own accord. Hardware
failures may take a network out, but the highest, by far, culprit for
outages is human error. If changes are not made, or closely managed,
then networks will stay up.
Steve.
> Networks, as a general rule, crash of their own accord.
> That does not excuse hostile action against them, which is
> generally illegal.
>
> Mr Kashpureff is in deep doggy doo.
>
> -george william herbert
> gherbert@crl.com