On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:47:41 EST, John Hawkinson said:
Whats amazing to me is that there is not one peep from NSI about this, no news service picked up on it, and it will go unnoticed, in general.
Isn't it amazing that a company as significant on the 'net as NSI can have such repetitive, continual database problems, and no one cares?
Perhaps it's because no one bothers to report the problems to them instead people send mail to bitch-and-moan@merit.edu which just happens to forward to nanog?
A) Do you happen to have proof that people *arent* reporting the problems to NSI as well as posting here? B) Considering how important NSI has been to keeping the net going, I'm surprised we haven't seen a CNN soundbite of Wolf Blitzer standing in front of NSI's corporate headquarters, talking about NSI executives preparing to explain to a Congressional subcommittee exactly why there are so many problems... A few days ago a total of 13 sites got DOS'ed, for an average of a few hours each, and that got MAJOR press coverage. It's surprising there wasn't a similar fuss the time that 30% of the .com's were dropped on the floor due to a undetected disk-full condition, and sites were having sporadic problems for several DAYS till all the DNS caches timed out, or the time a few days later there was ANOTHER problem, or the time..... Let's face it guys, taken on the "number of sites times outage time" basis, NSI operational issues have screwed a *LOT* more of the 4 million .COM's out there than trin00 has.... Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech