[39345] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Common causes of performance problems and outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Jul 3 01:23:53 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Maya' <myajnik@research.telcordia.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:27:28 -0700
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> From: Maya [mailto:myajnik@research.telcordia.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:31 AM
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> Hello,
> I want to find out the most common causes of
> performance problems as well as outages in
> networks today. Any information is welcome!
In no particular order;
1:Peering polcies resulting in really bizarre business-dictated routes.
2:Over-booking on broadband links (cable-modems)
3:Over extended growth by DSL operators (w/ resultant business failures, ie
NorthPoint).
4:RBOCs ... ALL of them.
5:Fixing what ain't broke.
6:Forgetting why you did something and then doing it "right" later.
7:ICANN for broken DNS (which BIZ you iz).
8:NewNet, for REALLY proving 7:.
9:The A**holes that write scripts for script-kiddies.
10: ...I'll stop while I'm behind....
Note that very little of the above had anything to do with technology and
everything to do with people.
