Who are you gonna call?
Sean Donelan
SEAN at SDG.DRA.COM
Tue Jun 29 05:53:16 UTC 1999
We're all doomed. Techweek reports Cisco CEO John Chambers plans to be
working with his programmers on New Year's Eve. Anyone who has ever worked
on a software project knows what kind of code gets produced by programmers
while the CEO is hanging around :-)
http://www.techweek.com/articles/6-28-99/countdow.htm
On to something a little more serious, although its going to sound a
bit strange. Imagine you had a special phone which always worked and
can call any number in the world. It has just one limitation. The
phone has only 9 speed-dial keys. And no cheating, you can't call the
AT&T/MCI/Sprint/etc operator to dial a number which wasn't pre-programmed,
and no third-party call forwarding.
What Internet specific resources would you like to have access?
Assume police, fire, medical, telephone repair, generator repair, etc are
already handled.
Here was my list:
- Cisco TAC (Have you paid your IOS service contract yet?)
- MFS (MAE-East tech on duty)
- Merit (Route Server, Gated)
- Internet Software Consortium (Have you paid your BIND service
contract yet?)
- UUNET NOC (if the 800lbs ISP falls over, we're all going to feel it)
- Sendmail, Inc (after TCP/IP, mail is something all NOC's depend on)
- Sun Microsystems (for those not running Linux)
- ARIN (assuming APNIC and RIPE are mirrored)
- My home phone (Family is important too)
I went through my old tickets, and besides telephone repair, its remarkable
how infrequently most of the Internet stuff we depend on breaks. So I
based my list not on how likely something would break, but on how bad it
would be if it did break.
Nothing may happen, but assuming such a list affected the setting of
priorities, any changes to my list and why?
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
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