[117381] in Cypherpunks
why bad things happen to good systems (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Wed Sep 1 21:03:26 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
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To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:50:13 -0500 (CDT)
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----- Forwarded message from Anonymous -----
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 02:15:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Subject: CDR: why bad things happen to good systems
At 10:16 AM 9/1/99 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>We were down because our original ISDN bridge failed. Then SWBT had a line
>outage for 2 days. Then our secondary/back-up bridge had a failed ethernet.
>My ISDN provider provided a tertiary backup which had a failed NT-1.
Three Mile Island also required three simultaneous unlikely
faults to have an incident. But they happen.
----- End of forwarded message from Anonymous -----
Ahmen to that.
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