RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

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

You can differ all you want, but I've never seen a large .COM deployment
without at least one senior SA swinging the clue-bat, backed up by a network
planner and a senior architect. How do you think they write all that code
and have it work? DEsign is much more difficult than maintenance and takes
more skilled personel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Mercer [mailto:jim () reptiles org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:59 AM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: Joe Shaw; Paul Ferguson; Declan McCullagh; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:34AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > No one trusts the operation
> > of a $1.5M Sun e6500 by a group of rookies. They can probably
> afford to hire
> > the best SA's that they can find and no one running equipment behind
> > anything larger than a T1 can afford to hire the ignorant. Not
> at the prices
> > charged for that size of a pipe.
>
> i beg to differ.
>
> i've seen a large number of .com's which have mega gear, and
> minor-league SA's.
>
> the problem is that alot of .com's seem to think that the vendor
> will be able
> to solve their serious problems, or that they can just hire some
> "certified"
> SA's to do the job.
>
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