Re: 11/11/00 Internet Routing Problems
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation, a senior engineer took a week off.
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks. I have no data to back up that statement.
Footnote to basic internet rule violation : two engineers on vacation is functionally equivalent to two engineers on the job. If you don't have an engineer on your side to balance out the changes made by the other, that's when you have problems. Deepak Jain AiNET On 13 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation, a senior engineer took a week off.
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks.
I have no data to back up that statement.
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks.
used to be that most changes were made at the ietf, when the hackers were all in the same terminal room and could most easily coordinate. that's why it worked so well. randy
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation, a senior engineer took a week off.
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks.
I have no data to back up that statement.
na... at least not dallas ietf in 1995 (i think it was '95). i remember ravi sitting in the terminal room with myself and most of the mci engg. group debugging a 23-day timer bug in is-is :) the network was pretty much melting down and we were all in dallas. -b
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:48:29AM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks.
I have no data to back up that statement.
That's 'cause you were off at IETF. :-)
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