[133188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloud proof of failure - was:: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Waters)
Mon Dec 6 04:57:24 2010
From: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:57:14 +0000
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On Monday 06 December 2010 09:47:43 Jay Mitchell wrote:
>
> "The Cloud" went down? I think not.
It did for at least one customer.
> Having ones account terminated as opposed to an outage caused by DDoS are
> two very different things.
Although not for all DNS providers.
There are operational lessons here. But do they boil down to technical issues
may not be the limiting factor on your uptime. As commented already by
someone, perhaps time to review plans for responses to non-technical threats
to availability.
