[5264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: generators, etc....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sun Oct 13 01:21:55 1996
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:16:26 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <961012201106.22063@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Oct 12, 96 08:11:06 pm
From: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Reply-To: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Hello,
Just to chime in with some historical bullocks....
> Don't forget 500 year floods that happen twice in a couple of years,
> e.g. the midwest. Or the occasional bombing, e.g. our New York City
> POP is in Hackensack, NJ now, the MIDNET router in Oklahoma City is
> in a landfill now. An Internet connection is pretty far down on the
> list of important things in a real disaster.
Actually, no....
The MIDnet OKC pop did not go down w/ the Murrah building bombing.
1 or 2 customers went down that were physically proximitous to the
blast, however. The LEC/RBOC FR network stayed up too...
Still, the point is well taken that un-meshed networks can not stand
significant damage from unforeseen natural/unnatural diasters.
Meshing the network doesn't guarantee much, but gives you a chance
of diminishing the harm.
-alan
