[Nanog-futures] default routes question or any way to do the rebundant

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:20:08PM -0400, Donald Stahl wrote:
> Do you walk up to a master carpenter and ask him to teach you everything 
> he knows without so much as doing a little research first? Of course not. 
> Do you throw together a network without reading a manual and then demand 
> that the manufacturer fix things that don't work because you didn't read 
> the manual? Of course not.

The curmudgeonly, sarcastic side of me wants to agree with this.

The side that remembers George Goble explaining to me what an "inode"
is as I was struggling to understand research Unix v6 thinks that
maybe we should not listen to my curmudgeonly, sarcastic side.
(George is also responsible for "rsk" because he couldn't spell
"kulawiec" reliably.)

We don't see many of these questions on NANOG (as opposed to others
lists where they're a daily occurence).  I think if they're as sporadic
as they appear to be, that what we saw today -- a handful of answers
including pointers for further readying -- will suffice to answer
the question, partially educate someone (maybe even someone who 
didn't asks the question) and alleviate the need to worry about it.

---Rsk