[177707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Now that's an odd failure mode...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sat Jan 31 00:37:36 2015
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From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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Once upon a time, Chris Hartley <hartleyc@gmail.com> said:
> At OARNet, the leading cause of aerial fiber outages was squirrels,
> followed closely by weather, distantly by angry farmers and once in Akron,
> random gunfire... At OSU, the leading cause of fiber outages is squirrels,
> followed distantly by fire.
What about the random moron trying to steal copper wire from the pole
(and getting glass instead)?
> Don't squirrels go back to their stash? Could a squirrel get through that
> hole, or were those just a lost stash?
Eh, if the number of small oak trees I find sprouting in my flower beds
is any indication, the squirrels' brains are smaller than the acorns and
they forget where they left them.
--
Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
