BBN outage

Fri Oct 11 23:06:54 UTC 1996

> > 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?

Because loss of connectivity for a day costs 10's of thousands
of dollars and, evidently, even the "big" companies are not
immune from "acts of god" like what happened today.

Sanjay.