[Outages-discussion] CenturyLink Outages this morning

[Keith Medcalf]

On Thursday, 27 December, 2018 23:08, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 20:58:27 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said:

>> One wonders why they do not simply "undo" whatever change they made
>> between when things were "working" and when they "broke" ...

>Sometimes, it's not so simple.  One Boston medical school found out
>the hard way in 2002:

Well, yes.  Some people run (or inherit) shoddy ill-considered and ill-maintained networks that manage to teeter on by luck when they should have fallen to bits long past.  Eventually they do fall apart -- this is the nature of shoddy construction.  Sometimes your structural engineers will tell you how to shore up the bridge before it comes tumbling down.  Sometimes not.  Sometimes the sending in of Engineers to take a look is not desired because of what they may find and being able to claim ignorance is bliss.  That reminds of the one about the hooker and the lawyers.  Never mind.  Off topic.

Are you suggesting that CenturyLink is operating such an ill-conceived network and that it was just working by happenstance and luck and that it was bound to fall apart sooner or later due to its well-known built-in flaws that were never remediated?  

How did you come across this information?  Is it in their Risk Disclosure with the SEC?

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