[5229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael shiplett)
Fri Oct 11 23:06:15 1996
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 11 Oct 1996 18:50:45 -0700.
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From: michael shiplett <walrus@ans.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:01:10 -0400
"md" == Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> writes:
md> Perhaps there is a lesson in redundancy here.
[...]
md> The other was that they did not have alternate types of power
md> source, i.e. they did not have generators on site but expected
md> that 3 different utility power sources was adequate redundancy.
This reminds me of a passage from Bruce Sterling's _The Hacker Crackdown_.
Parked outside the back is a power-generation truck. The generator
strikes me as rather anomalous. Don't they already have their own
generators in this eight-story monster? Then the suspicion strikes
me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T
power-outage which crashed New York City. Belt-and-suspenders,
this generator. Very telco.
michael
