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Re: multi-homing fixed
From: Peter Francis <peter () softaware com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:47:59 -0700
At 10:38 AM -0700 8/28/01, Rachel Warren wrote:
A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though.Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite taken aback. ;)I guess I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about nuclear bombs. I was talking about regular explosives (for lack of better wording) - pipe bombs and the latter. The type of quake you are talking about is up in the nuclear-bomb stratosphere, and that's not something that would keep me up at night worrying. Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-)
Think again (it's a common misconception ...): http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/greatquakes/greatquakes_vulnerable.html Peter
Rachel -- Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker
Current thread:
- RE: multi-homing fixed, (continued)
- RE: multi-homing fixed Randy Bush (Aug 28)
- RE: multi-homing fixed Mitch Halmu (Aug 29)
- RE: multi-homing fixed Randy Bush (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Sean M. Doran (Aug 28)
- RE: multi-homing fixed David Hares (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Leo Bicknell (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Leo Bicknell (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Rachel Warren (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Grant A. Kirkwood (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Scott Stursa (Aug 28)
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- Re: multi-homing fixed Rachel Warren (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed Peter Francis (Aug 28)
- Re: multi-homing fixed John Payne (Aug 28)
- RE: multi-homing fixed David Hares (Aug 28)