mae-west route servers are both down hard
This...
From: noc@noc.ns.itd.umich.edu Date: Thursday, May 23, 1996 4:26 PM Subject: rs2.mae-west down indefinately
The route server rs2.mae-west.ra.net has crashed with the same symptoms as rs1.mae-west. Both servers will be down indefinately. Further information will be passed on as it becomes available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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...is not just an inconvenience. On the strength of Merit's publicity, quite a few peerships have been done through route servers, and to have both route servers down at the same time is a massive disruption to many of the folks who connect at MAE-W. I have two heavily overconfigured Alpha machines loaded in my van, with Stephen Stuart's port of RSd all ready for someone from Merit or ISI to load up their configuration tables. I've got a driver and a technician. I need someone from Merit or ISI to call me and arrange physical access as well as scheduling the download of the initial configuration files and turnover of the root account and other "system keys". The use of the machines, and the time to deliver and install them, have all been donated by people who are suffering due to MAE-West's ills. It is most extraordinary that we have let things suffer this long, and if the current plan is to wait until after the three day weekend, I consider that flatly unacceptable. E-mail me (paul@vix.com) or call me (1 415 747 0204) to arrange details.
On Fri, 24 May 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:
The route server rs2.mae-west.ra.net has crashed with the same symptoms as rs1.mae-west.
Hmmm....
I have two heavily overconfigured Alpha machines loaded in my van, with Stephen Stuart's port of RSd all ready for someone from Merit or ISI to load up their configuration tables. I've got a driver and a technician.
This is nice as a fast fix, but it seems to me that identically configured mission critical machines have crashed for the same reason (not surprising) and now may be replaced by two other identically configured machines. Might it not be wise to have two DIFFERENT machines doing this job, maybe a SPARC and an Alpha?
The use of the machines, and the time to deliver and install them, have all been donated by people who are suffering due to MAE-West's ills. It is most extraordinary that we have let things suffer this long, and if the current plan is to wait until after the three day weekend, I consider that flatly unacceptable. E-mail me (paul@vix.com) or call me (1 415 747 0204) to arrange details.
Glad to see that people are willing to do what it takes to keep things operating. Somehow I suspect that Bob Metcalfe's next InfoWorld column will be gloating over the route server failures and fail to mention Paul and the other people who put the effort in to deal with the problem. Sort of like how people use to say Ethernet could never be any good because of the packet collisions... ;-) Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
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