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Re: Top-50 Report

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Sep 16 01:56:14 1996

Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 0:52:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu

>Then one must ask, why are so many people finding it necessary to 
>become multi-homed? A lot of it is kind of a vicious wheel.  
>Because "NSP A" had routeing problems "customer X" had to backup 
>their link to "NSP B". I personally think most of its down to a lack
>of education to the customers. 

Will people please stop asking this question, it seems to put a jinx
on the net.  Everytime it gets asked, some major provider kills their
network for a day, giving the answer to the question.

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation

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