Discussion point: Telco quality?

Roeland M.J. Meyer rmeyer at mhsc.com
Fri Oct 9 16:37:15 UTC 1998


At 10:01 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:
>
>>> Define "reliable".
>>
>>Good point.  Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the
>>Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build
>>99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over
>>the business.  Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls.  But it
>>has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and
>>telco manufacturers fail to understand.  For example I can have a 99.9999+
>>SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly
>>don't have a reliable network.
>
>Bingo.

Yes, the answer is to run your own root-server, a la GRS.
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