Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

[Dave Stewart <dbs () dbscom com>]

At 06:12 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote:

> If we started posting about every fiber cut of every carrier anywhere in
> North America every time it happened there wouldn't be any room left on
> this list for talking about spam, senderid, DNS RFCs, E911 for VoIP
> carriers, err... wait which side am I arguing again? :)

I don't operate even a mid-size network, but when there's an outage that 
effects more than a handful of locations, it's useful to know about it...

Not that there's anything I can do about it... but when customers are 
calling and asking why they can't reach their application servers, it's 
nice to be able to tell them there's a problem at $location and that no, I 
don't know when it'll be fixed, but they can be sure it's being worked on.

Sure, I can tell 'em that there's no problem with our network, and that our 
connectivity is fine... and leave them to figure out if there's a break 
someplace - and I do.

But I think NANOG is certainly an appropriate forum for medium/large-scale 
outages - unless someone's created an outage list someplace.

I will agree that it's not the place to bitch about a vendor not giving 
more specifics, dumping on vendors in any way, actually...