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Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area


From: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:22:16 -0500


nanog-outage@ ? ? ?

On 6/8/05, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com <Michael.Dillon () btradianz com> wrote:

My concern would be that by openly encouraging people to send in more
reports of or inquiries about outages, we are going to see a lot more
noise from unqualified folks wanting to "be cool". I personally don't
want
to hear about it every time someone wants to vendor bash ("@#$%^&ing GX
is
down again and their customer support sucks"), every time a T1 in
Bumblescum Nowhere goes down, or otherwise completely useless posts
("did
anyone see anything funky on level 3 on the east coast yesterday?").

Perhaps the best way to deal with that problem is to wait and
see if it actually happens. In the past NANOG has carried a lot
of these outage reports during a time when the net was less
reliable than it is today. It didn't overwhelm the list back then.
I would assume that because of the level of effort that operators
put into having resilient networks, there would not be a huge
amount of these outage reports because most real outages will
remain invisible to customers.

--Michael Dillon




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