[5211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Oct 11 19:00:30 1996
From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:46:21 -0700
In-Reply-To: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
"Re: BBN outage" (Oct 11, 15:42)
To: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
matthew@nic.scruz.net
Original message <199610112242.PAA26232@osprey.webpros.com>
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
Date: Oct 11, 15:42
Subject: Re: BBN outage
>
...
> On an unrelated note, I still have hard time believing
> companies like Sun are single homed through bbnplanet
> and have no backup when things like this happen.
Why, just a few weeks ago there was a big discussion here on the
NANOG list that definitively proved that end-user multihoming
REDUCED reliability for that customer. BBN is a big company...
why would you want to risk all the complexity of having a
backup circuit to someone else?
-matthew kaufman
matthew@scruz.net
