[154708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Hart)
Mon Jul 9 13:21:57 2012
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From: Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:20:21 +0000
To: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Malayter <malayter@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 15:50 UTC, Rayson Ho wrote:
> There are also bugs from the Netflix side uncovered by the AWS outage:
>
> "Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm"
>
> http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-storm.html
"We continue to investigate why these connections were timing out
during connect, rather than quickly determining that there was no
route to the unavailable hosts and failing quickly."
potential translation:
"We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot by filtering all ICMP
without understanding the implications."
Cheers,
Dave Hart
