A strong point for resilience can be made by noting that the wifi component of the network remained up. We have more than just phone numbers to communicate, being able to also layer voice over signal, videoconferencing, facetime and a zillion other tools that did not go down.
The best and most snarky response I have seen yet to the debacle thus far was "Upgrade to room 641A went south". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM Bill Woodcock via Nnagain <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 23, 2024, at 00:42, Vint Cerf via Nnagain > > <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > > Could some non-ATT outages be people trying to reach ATT destinations? > > Yes, I think it’s very well established at this point that there were no > associated simultaneous outages in any other networks, and that all of the > “downdetector” things were just, as you say, people elsewhere trying to reach > AT&T customers. > > -Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > Nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain -- https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/2024_predictions/ Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ Nnagain mailing list Nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain
