[ih] Dan Lynch has passed away

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/2/2024 4:32 PM, Wayne Hathaway via Internet-history wrote:
> so occasionally I would start my email to the customer’s IT people with
> something like “When did you install the machine at 192.36.72.14?  it is
>   doing so-and-so in violation of the NFS protocol spec and it is causing
>   problems for others on your network.”  The responses were often
> hilarious.

My understanding is that the Arpanet Network Control folk at BBN would 
watch the link-level error rates and see when a line's performance began 
to degrade.  They would then call up the relevant phone line folk -- 
AT&T, GTE, etc. -- reporting the impending failure.

Initially, of course, the phone folk had no precedent for customer 
reports like this.  So this, too, was a case of 'how the heck do you 
know this?" from the phone people.  Apparently it took some time to get 
them to heed the reports.

I'm sure there is a person or two on this list to confirm or correct 
this understanding...

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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