[3688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: aol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Curado)
Fri Aug 9 02:47:11 1996
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 02:42:07 -0400
From: Dave Curado <dcurado@neteng.nis.newscorp.com>
To: alan@gi.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> I was waiting for someone to bring this up, but it didn't happen.
>
> The "19 hour" outage of AOL was attributed to a new network
> operating system update, by at least one media story I read. I'm
> curious is there're any interesting lessons from this for the rest
> of us?
Perhaps: Always make sure you have that "UnInstall" option available
to you? =-)
I paused for a moment and considered how interesting it is that
a problem with an online service is now headline news... on the same
day NASA announced there is(was) probably other life in the universe.
