Re: Famous operational issues

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

John Kristoff wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
> operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
> have seen.
Well... pre-Internet, but the great Northeast fiber cut comes to mind 
(backhoe vs. fiber, backhoe won).

Miles Fidelman

--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown