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Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
From: Gary R Wright <gwright () connix com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:05:47 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
I admit that the problem at NSI is larger by three orders of magnitude, but essentially the same sort of scripts could be run. If such scripts were in place at NSI, such failures, which have occurred multiple times, would never have happened. Humans CANNOT be trusted with this sort of thing. Humans are fallible. You can't have humans involved in this sort of release process.
And who wrote the QA scripts you describe? Complex systems have complex failure modes. Yes, there are clearly steps that can be taken to minimize the problems, but anybody who claims that building "robustness" into complex systems is anything other than "hard" should spend some time reading the RISKS archives (http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html).
Current thread:
- NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems David Holtzman (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Randy Bush (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Perry E. Metzger (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Randy Bush (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Perry E. Metzger (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Randy Bush (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Darrell Fuhriman (Jul 17)
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- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Neil J. McRae (Jul 18)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Perry E. Metzger (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Randy Bush (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Gary R Wright (Jul 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Carl Oppedahl (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Steve Goldstein (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Randy Bush (Jul 17)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Steve Goldstein (Jul 18)
- Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems Greg A. Woods (Jul 20)