[5212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani(maillists))
Fri Oct 11 19:19:25 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> > 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?
Because loss of connectivity for a day costs 10's of thousands
of dollars and, evidently, even the "big" companies are not
immune from "acts of god" like what happened today.
Sanjay.
