BBN outage

Fri Oct 11 22:46:21 UTC 1996

Original message <199610112242.PAA26232 at osprey.webpros.com>
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus at professionals.com>
Date: Oct 11, 15:42
Subject: Re: BBN outage
> 
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> On an unrelated note, I still have hard time believing
> companies like Sun are single homed through bbnplanet
> and have no backup when things like this happen.

Why, just a few weeks ago there was a big discussion here on the
NANOG list that definitively proved that end-user multihoming
REDUCED reliability for that customer. BBN is a big company...
why would you want to risk all the complexity of having a 
backup circuit to someone else?

-matthew kaufman
 matthew at scruz.net