[27106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Harms-Merbitz)
Wed Feb 9 11:33:50 2000
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:06:58 -0800
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000209035926.Q18410@reptiles.org>; from Jim Mercer on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:59:27AM -0500
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If anything, the more mega the gear, the more minor-leage the SAs.
Dirk
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:59:27AM -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:34AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > No one trusts the operation
> > of a $1.5M Sun e6500 by a group of rookies. They can probably afford to hire
> > the best SA's that they can find and no one running equipment behind
> > anything larger than a T1 can afford to hire the ignorant. Not at the prices
> > charged for that size of a pipe.
>
> i beg to differ.
>
> i've seen a large number of .com's which have mega gear, and minor-league SA's.
>
> the problem is that alot of .com's seem to think that the vendor will be able
> to solve their serious problems, or that they can just hire some "certified"
> SA's to do the job.
>
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