rawlins@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Gregory J. E. Rawlins) (10/23/90)
I'm a recent subscriber to this newsgroup and I would like to know if there are published sources of the various phone system and net outages. I'm particularly looking for books that described some of the outages and the reasons for them with special emphasis on the net itself. For example, I've heard of the first arpanet plague in 1972 but aside from a brief mention in one of Comer's book I have never seen a book that talked about it. Surely there have been more since then? (For example, last year's worm.) Are these war stories collected somewhere? I'm writing about algorithms on graphs and networks and I would like to make it more interesting by describing the way these algorithms have failed in the real world (the '72 Arpanet failure is a good example of what can go wrong if one of the IMPs decides that it has a negative hop cost). Apologies for wasting bandwidth with a simple inquiry. I imagine this must be a fairly frequent question. Thanks, gregory