Re: UUNET issues?

[Mark Smith <nanog () fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e nosense org>]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:55:46 -0800
Michael Smith <mksmith () adhost com> wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > > > > "Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing?"
> > > > the internet is broken.  anyone know why?
> > > Did you ping it?
> >
> > is that what broke it?
>
> Please.  That's how you *know* it's broken.

With the prevalence of firewalls, I've found broken traceroutes to be a
much more reliable indicator of broken Internettedness.

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