Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!nosc!peanuts.nosc.mil!dennis From: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: NLS servers Message-ID: <838@nosc.NOSC.MIL> Date: 8 Dec 88 20:12:01 GMT References: <4014e53a.1837d@apollo.COM> <1730@sol.oakhill.UUCP> Sender: nobody@nosc.NOSC.MIL Reply-To: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil.UUCP (Dennis Cottel) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 17 In article <4014e53a.1837d@apollo.COM> molson@apollo.com writes about the NLS server being node locked, and how it can't be done otherwise... Several places in this message, Ms. Olson refers to how unlikely it is for a node to be down. Nevertheless, it *will* happen -- and at an extremely inconvenient time, no doubt. You must design for the worst case. Apollo has the most advanced networking capabilites available. They have to be designing and building workable solutions to the new problems that this technology brings. Of course, I suppose a viable company can't be marketing products that are still research issues, but I've been disappointed that Apollo hasn't been more imaginative in taking advantage of the network possibilities. Dennis Cottel Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152 (619) 553-1645 dennis@nosc.MIL sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis