[115275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Repetski)
Mon Jun 15 21:12:53 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A36DBB0.1000201@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:12:33 -0400
From: Stephen Repetski <srepetsk@tjhsst.edu>
To: Erik Fichtner <emf1123@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: srepetsk@tjhsst.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Erik Fichtner <emf1123@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen Repetski wrote:
> > Yep, that's what it says. Things like "critical network upgrades"
> sometimes
> > don't wait for good timing - they make their own special event.
>
> And yet, all upgrades can be postponed with the right... motivation.
>
> http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html
>
> Nice save, NTT.
But not without a nice plug from Twitter, though it's a nice gesture. Which
brings me back to the question why Twitter isn't multi-homed, or what the
nature of the "network upgrade" is that it brings down their entire network.
