Re: Thank you

[sgoldste () nsf gov (Steve Goldstein)]

Valery,

Just when I think that I understand things, I find out how little I know,
or how little I should trust my instincts.  I'll try to translate some
North American idioms for you below.  Anyway, MSU's difficulty should be
finished now.

--Steve

At 12:13 PM 2/06/95, Sean Doran wrote:
> Actually, what happened in this case was a typo in a filter
> list on icm-dc-1 which blocked the announcement from the Dante
> 4000.
>
> One or more of us here is at fault for accidentally
> adjusting things in the wrong way.  Chalk up another round
> to fat finger syndrome...
    ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^   = bad typing mistakes (from fat fingers)

> Some automation for updating some
> of AS 1800's configuration is in the works, so hopefully
                               ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ = in progress

> this won't be a recurring problem after that's done.
>
> We did have some difficulty in tracking this down initially,
> as we had no idea who should have been announcing AS 3058
> routes to AS 1800, and the filter-list appeared good at
> first glance.
>
> Dante looked into things on their end over the past couple
> of days, and informed us that they were announcing things to us
> OK and that things looked OK on the Dante 4000 in D.C., and asked
> us to re-check the filter list.
>
> Sure enough, they were right, and the 120 line filter-list
> had a botch near the end.
       ^^^^^ = mistake
> This was fixed this morning (D.C. time) and routing in this
> case seems to be working OK.
>
> A note went out to the people directly involved earlier
> today.
>
>        Sean.
> - --
> Sean Doran <smd () icp net> / <smd () sprint net>


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