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Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Sun Jun 2 09:09:42 1996

From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon@Merit.Net>
To: Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST) <nanog@silkroad.com>,
        flatline@ironhorse.com (Christopher E. Stefan)
cc: nanog@Merit.Net, bass@silkroad.com
In-reply-to: Tim Bass's message of Sat, 01 Jun 1996 18:04:56 -0400.
	     <199606012204.SAA02207@linux.silkroad.com> 
Reply-To: khuon@Merit.Net (Jake Khuon)
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 08:59:57 -0400

### On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 18:04:56 -0400 (EDT), Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST)
### <nanog@linux.silkroad.com> wrote to flatline@ironhorse.com (Christopher
### E. Stefan) concerning "Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )":

TB> it seems ironic that projects of such importance to the IP World can be
TB> configured to not to withstand a single platform crash

That statement is untrue.  At all our production sites, the service can
withstand a single platform crash.  This is because we have redundancy at
those exchange points.  However, at MAE-West, there was only one machine
operational.  The lack of a redundant machine was what prohibited
declaration of production status.


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