[154700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk)
Mon Jul 9 07:43:15 2012
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:42:29 +0100 (BST)
From: "gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk" <gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Steve at pirk,=0A=0AI fail to grasp the concept in your argument.=0A=0AYou =
do realise, do you not, that your $$$$$ black boxes from your favourite bra=
nd name vendor have software running inside of them do you not ?=0A=0ACase =
in point for example, the recent LINX issues.... it wasn't the hardware tha=
t gave them the headaches, but the software running on it sure did !=0A=0A>=
I am a big believer in using hardware to load balance data centers, and not=
=0A>leave it up to software in the data center which might fail.=A0
