Says a lot about the architecture of the application and redundancy. I'd love to know what the failover looks like in a worst-case scenario
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 10:51, Aaron de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > If we have downtime, we lose revenue, customers, sleep, etc... > > If the government does it, what are you going to do? Get your license > somewhere else? > > -A > > On Sat Feb 25, 2023, 11:39 PM GMT, Christopher Morrow > <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 6:12 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > > > Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver > Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to > check before handing out a license. > > > Wait, what year is it? > how is a network maintenance on what seems like a fairly critical system > going > to cause a total outage of said system? > > I think we time traveled back to 1990 here... > > > All 50 states and D.C. participate in the National Driver Register, a > database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. > The register contains information about drivers who have had their driving > privileges revoked, suspended or denied due to serious traffic violations, > such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, reckless driving > or excessive speeding. > > > The scheduled maintenance should be finished by Monday, in case you needed > to update your driver's license or planned to do some reckless driving > this weekend. > >