[136792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Fri Feb 4 23:03:32 2011
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 23:03:26 -0500
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <26012966.5009.1296873249342.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:34:09PM -0500, Jay Ashworth said:
>Where *is* your Trailblazer? Is it hooked up? Have you tested it
>lately?
>
>Do you have Taylor UUCP installed? Configured? Have peers?
No, but i have old drives full of uucp maps around. I'd start with those. And
I'd use the terrestrial phone system to call up/figure out who's still out
there (im friends/colleagues or know how to reach many of the people who ran
my old peers). Once it became clear it was a long outtage, the effort required
to get all this going again would be worth it. I have the tools around to make
it happen, if I needed to, and I know several others who also do. (Maybe time
to keep a copy of uu*.deb around though..)
Oh whoops, except I have a dry copper loop in my house for my dsl.
Dang nabbit. Stupid advancing technology. (During an internet outtage I wonder
if new orders for POTS phone service would be quashed in the interest of
'public safety'... :)
/kc
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