[5319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Oct 15 00:58:02 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961014152452.3587D-100000@unix.off-road.com>
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Patrick J. Chicas wrote:
> So.. It looks like they abhorently ignored thier power situation. This is
> an "act of stupidity", not an "act of god" as one other person mentioned.
Well, the original outage was caused by a rat gnawing a cable....
There are always layers of complexity, layers of causation and layers of
blame in a situation like this. You might end up finding that 20 people
were 5% to blame but it just so happened that all 20 made the wrong
mistake at the wrong time to cause 100% failure.
But you do have some good advice here regarding power. Thanks.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
