On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, mike harrison wrote:
> > In theory, news would be more rebust than mail, because of its distributed > > nature and it should be possible to make news work without relying on the > > DNS. > Many of us do not run news servers, and you have to 'login' to access it. Obviously it's not a good idea to use the existing news service for this... But if we're looking for a very robust mechanism to get information around when there are many outages, building a network using dedicated news servers would be a simple and effective way to do it. Unlike just about anything else, news is truly distributed. > When we start having weird network conditions, I have learned to > quickly scan my mailbox for NANOG and Dshield and a few other lists.. > sometimes it helps. E-Mail's great for this. It's there when I need it. Agree, but the problem is the email service isn't very robust. You could of course always use a news-to-mail gateway. > A more robust configuration for the NANOG e-mail list would be my > first choice. Maybe a backup east/west coast listserv address: nanog@.... > just syncing the mailing list address daily would be enough? It would probably help, yes. Iljitsch van Beijnum
