[41022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi-homing fixed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Warren)
Tue Aug 28 13:38:51 2001
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:38:13 -0700
From: Rachel Warren <rachel@plur.net>
To: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant@virtical.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> > A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though.
>
> Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA
> datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC,
> diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what
> procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck
> the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city
> underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that
> magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their
> servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite
> taken aback. ;)
I guess I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about nuclear bombs.
I was talking about regular explosives (for lack of better wording) - pipe
bombs and the latter. The type of quake you are talking about is up in the
nuclear-bomb stratosphere, and that's not something that would keep me up
at night worrying.
Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these
things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-)
Rachel
--
Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker
