I remember when the big carriers de-peered with Cogent in the early 2000s. The underestimated the amount of web-sites being hosted by people using cogent exclusively. Justin Wilson j2sw@j2sw.com — https://j2sw.com - All things jsw (AS209109) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog
On Feb 17, 2021, at 10:29 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
John Kristoff wrote:
Friends,
I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you have seen.
Well... pre-Internet, but the great Northeast fiber cut comes to mind (backhoe vs. fiber, backhoe won).
Miles Fidelman
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown