Re: FYI Netflix is down

["gb10hkzo-nanog () yahoo co uk" <gb10hkzo-nanog () yahoo co uk>]

Steve at pirk,

I fail to grasp the concept in your argument.

You do realise, do you not, that your $$$$$ black boxes from your favourite brand name vendor have software running 
inside of them do you not ?

Case in point for example, the recent LINX issues.... it wasn't the hardware that gave them the headaches, but the 
software running on it sure did !

> I am a big believer in using hardware to load balance data centers, and not
> leave it up to software in the data center which might fail.