[39349] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Common causes of performance problems and outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RJ Atkinson)
Tue Jul 3 08:08:56 2001
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 08:04:13 -0400
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 01:27 03/07/01, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>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....
s/2:/2a:/
s/on broadband links/on HFC segments/
2b: DSL operators wildly oversubscribing the link
between the DSLAM and the first-hop router.
2a/2b are equivalent problems, but the location of
oversubscription risk varies with the technology.
11: Deployment of "advanced" technologies that a reasonable
NOC cannot make work in one's backbone/core.
