[32067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Election 1996 - 2000 has the Internet changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Nov 6 18:20:16 2000
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From: Sean Donelan <sdonelan@equinix.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:44 -0800
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I was doing some web searches on the Internet's performance during the last
US
presidential election in 1996.
Things haven't changed very much. Randy Bush was still asking why people
are
asking about network outages on NANOG instead of calling the providers NOCs.
AGIS
and BBN were having routing problems. The rat in the power plant at Stanford
was autopsied. People were SYN flooding IRC sites. And web operators
woefully
underestimated the crowd effects on their servers.
But I found this quote about how we could improve the Internet's performance
amusing.
The Internet needs a faster backbone using Asynchronous Transfer Mode
technologies,
and companies should locate their servers on server farms, Jenkins said.
"There
needs to be some sharing of bandwidths and consolidation of resources
into a high-speed
backbone," he said. (Computerworld)
PS, the e-mail address does not imply representation, my normal non-work
domain is
under-the-weather.
