[1125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Westnet and Utah outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Hayward)
Wed Nov 22 14:06:22 1995
From: Jeff Hayward <J.Hayward@utexas.edu>
To: cook@cookreport.com
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 95 12:53:27 CST
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951122111414.8884H-100000@tigger.jvnc.net>; from "Gordon Cook" at Nov 22, 95 11:21 am
Gordon Cook writes:
COOK: your suggestion scott not mine....... If I remember correctly on
my one previous querry 6 weeks ago, the problem seemed to be more MCI's
than sprints. I am in the midst of writing a long cover story on how
backbones are responding to internet growth pressure and when something
breaks I am interest in understanding what happened.
Gordon,
Why would this be a backbone issue? It sounds to me like Westnet
relies on a single connection from its NSP, and that this failed for
some period of time. Any single component, be it circuit, router,
etc. *will fail*. If a regional depends on a single point of failure
the outcome is inevitable.
--
Jeff Hayward
