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Re: Mars lander (Re: How to achieve application reliability)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brett watson)
Mon Dec 6 11:02:52 1999

Message-Id: <199912061600.IAA24030@ug.mibh.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:11:15 EST."
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:00:17 -0800
From: brett watson <bwatson@mibh.net>
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> How can you be so sure the hosts you were hitting with pings and
> traceroutes were the same hosts? It's quite possible smoke and mirrors
> were in between (smoke: web directors answering the pings... mirrors:
> anycast addressing with policy routing).
> 
> It's getting pretty wierd to debug IP these days...

sure, i was admittedly making some blind assumptions.  i didn't check
any dns entries.  then again we've all seen a few other "media events"
fall over and die because folks haven't done the server/os/app side
very well.

-brett


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