RE: Discussion point: Telco quality?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

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.
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