[140096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Amazon diagnosis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun May 1 17:29:53 2011
To: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 17:28:33 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 PDT, Mike said:
> I am still waiting for proof that single points of failure can
> realistically be completely eliminated from any moderately complicated
> network environment / application. So far, I think murphy is still
> winning on this one.
For starters, you almost always screw up and have one NOC full of
chuckle-headed banana eaters. And if you have two NOCs, that implies
one entity deciding which one takes lead on a problem. ;)
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