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At 10:01 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote: >At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote: > >>> Define "reliable". >> >>Good point. Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the >>Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build >>99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over >>the business. Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls. But it >>has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and >>telco manufacturers fail to understand. For example I can have a 99.9999+ >>SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly >>don't have a reliable network. > >Bingo. Yes, the answer is to run your own root-server, a la GRS. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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