Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

[Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>]

My favorite was always the (potential) customers who would call up  
and ask "Can I get the Internet in my house?" -- I would always  
answer "That depends, how big is your house?", but they NEVER got  
it.......


On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Jason Gauthier wrote:

> Sounds like our typical customer service calls.
>
> Them: "Is the Internet down?"
> Us:   "Yes, someone will turn it back on soon."
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On
> > Behalf Of Peter Ferrigan
> > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:04 AM
> > To: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
> >
> >
> >
> > At one of my old jobs, my boss honestly believed that we had
> > a 'switch'
> > that turned the entire internet off or on.  When she was
> > having problems accessing her shopping sites, she'd storm in
> > the office and say something like 'did you guys turn the the
> > internet off again?'  <sigh>

Yah, I would have customers call and ask me to "reboot the Internet,  
its down again"...

Ok, let the customer support anecdotes flow...
W

> > Then again, this is the same person that tried to tell me
> > that 768 OC-192s are carried on a single DS1..
> >
> >
> > - Peter
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I shudder to think what would happen under large scale
> > attack if one of the
> > > CEOs in that room had "responsibility" for the correct
> > functioning of the
> > > "Internet".
> > >
> > > This definitely falls into the "Just Doesn't Get It" category.
> > >
> > > --
> > > TTFN,
> > > patrick