[27090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Feb 9 04:27:12 2000
Message-Id: <200002090906.JAA18251@genesis.domino.org>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "Jim Mercer" <jim@reptiles.org>, "Joe Shaw" <jshaw@insync.net>,
"Paul Ferguson" <ferguson@cisco.com>,
"Declan McCullagh" <declan@wired.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2000 01:09:14 PST."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 09:06:33 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:09:14 -0800
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
>
> You can differ all you want, but I've never seen a large .COM deployment
> without at least one senior SA swinging the clue-bat, backed up by a network
> planner and a senior architect. How do you think they write all that code
> and have it work? DEsign is much more difficult than maintenance and takes
> more skilled personel
>
Only if the design was a good one. If its a bad one, maintenance can
be a nightmare. [and few designers want to do post-deployment maintenance,
as its traditionally an operators job].
--
Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking
neil@DOMINO.ORG