[41139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Whalen)
Thu Aug 30 00:15:38 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Agreed, everyone has circuit failures. I was just making a not so subtle
reference to the huge multihoming thread going on, by stating that a user
multihomed with multiple providers gives themselves a better survival
chance against this type of thing. Backhoes, trains, buses, union
strikes, power failures. Pick your enemy..
Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
>
> >
> > Routing around the problem, what a concept. More backup for the 2xt1 shop
> > to contimue doing it..
>
> I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit go
> down. :-)
>
