Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

[Tayeb Meftah <tayeb.meftah () gmail com>]

Idiotberry


Envoyé de mon iPhone

Le 12 oct. 2011 à 17:55, Charles Mills <w3yni1 () gmail com> a écrit :

> +1
> On Oct 12, 2011 11:51 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:52:02 CDT, -Hammer- said:
> > > What kills me is what they have told the public. The lost a "core
> > > switch". I don't know if they actually mean network switch or not but
> > > I'm pretty sure any of us that work on an enterprise environment know
> > > how to factor N+1 just for these types of days. And then the backup
> > > solution failed? I'm not buying it either.
> >
> > Yeah, and that extra comma in the one config file that didn't make a
> > difference
> > when you tested the failover in the lab *never* makes a difference when it
> > hits
> > in the production network, right?  Or they changed the config of the
> > primary and
> > it didn't get propogated just right to the backup, or they had mismatched
> > firmware
> > levels on blades in the blades on the primary and backup switches, so
> > traffic that
> > didn't tickle a bug on the primary blades caused the blade to crash on the
> > backup,
> > or...
> >
> > Anybody on this list who's been around long enough probably has enough "We
> > should have had N+2 because the N+1'th device failed too" stories to drain
> > *several* pitchers of beer at a good pub... I've even had one case where my
> > butt got *saved* from a ohnosecond-class whoops because the N+1'th device
> > *was*
> > crashed (stomped a config file, it replicated, was able to salvage a copy
> > from
> > a device that didn't replicate because it was down at the time).