Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: jeremyp on May 28, 2017, 07:32:06 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40075721
Yeah right. The one thing we can be fairly certain of is that it had nothing to do with a power issue. My money is on somebody breaking the internal DNS.
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Given the absence of information from BA .. we may as well pass time speculating...
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I wonder if their silence indicates there was a lack of contingency, which if so seems like negligence in a business that is clearly dependent on its software working.
Perhaps someone forgot to wind the elastic band.
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From the BBC website - some thoughts on what the underlying problems might be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40082631
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Thank goodness the problem did not bring planes down.
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From the BBC website - some thoughts on what the underlying problems might be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40082631
An interesting link, but there's nothing in it that any IT professional couldn't have told you. Personally, I think the power supply excuse is a lie. BA's data centre would have had multiple independent power supplies and backup generators. Furthermore, I'd be extremely surprised if they only had one data centre.
The reason I think it is the internal DNS is because that is more or lass a single point of failure. For those who do not know what DNS is, it is the mechanism by which a name like "religionethics.co.uk" gets translated into an IP address. DNS is supposed to be distributed but it has a mechanism so that changing the record for a name gets propagated everywhere. If somebody uploaded the wrong address for google.com, pretty soon nobody would be able to access their servers.
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I heard that Alex Cruz being interviewed yesterday and then looked him up. Seems he has been at BA for a year and that since then his cost-cutting has led to all sorts of problems. I did not bother to find out what his previous experience was that qualified him for the job he is in now, but I wonder how much pressure there will be on him to resign.