On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:46, Steve Holdoway wrote: > From the third party reports I've heard, it was the logon server that > got disconnected ( there's only one??? ), so once you lost your lease, > you were stuffed.
Here is Telecom's statement with what happened; http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=3193&page=1&pagesize=10 > What I can't believe is that there was no redundancy, given that the > fibre infrastructure was designed for it. Was it designed like the > Shuttle... lowest bid got the contract? Two cable breaks, one on each > island, took out all of the Telecom internet, chunks of the mobile > network, and eftpos! > > There was a similar outage in London about 10 years ago, when a ship > dragged it's anchor and cut both sides of the ring across the Thames. > Took linx out for the best part of a day. But at least there was a ring > present, even if both sides were next to each other! > > Steve hads -- You are not expected to understand this [Unix] cav. The canonical comment describing something magic or too complicated to bother explaining properly. From an infamous comment in the context-switching code of the V6 Unix kernel. Dennis Ritchie has explained this in detail.
