[5375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: generators, etc....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Wed Oct 16 23:03:45 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 00:09:51 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
> If we hold BBN to the same standards that the telco industry uses to
> come up with 99.999%, BBN was up but "a few customers" experienced a
> localized outage. This would be brushed off the same as the Illinious
> AT&T fire at the POP that took out much of the Chicago suburbs for
> about a week. It doesn't count against the 99.999%. (Otherwise AT&T
> owes Chicago a couple thousand years of flawless service:).
>
I remember my complaint on the IETF list some years back, when
NSFnet/ANS would routinely tout high availability, by eliminating any
link outages from their report, as they were not under its control ...
or route flaps greater than 5 minutes, for unknown reasons. ;-)
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