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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:47:13 PDT, "andrew.wallace" said:
Guys the outage has moved to U.S and Canada, I think we need to look at this perhaps being sabotage.
It ain't sabotage till you rule out "misconfigured router".
Andrew, you *really* need to learn what the actual failure modes and root causes in real-life production networks are, and draw conclusions from reality, not whatever MI-7 inspired dream world the claim of "sabotage" came from.
In fairness, Valdis, Andrew did not say "this was obviously sabotage". He suggested that that possibility be added to the list of things which the RIM employees tasked with finding a root cause consider. I think the old filtering rule applies here: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. If this turns out to look like it came from 3 or more non-cascading failures, then sabotage will look a little more likely. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274