[10101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jun 15 17:35:46 1997
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:32:27 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: randy@psg.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
>Come on folk. The useful, as opposed to ISP-bashing, answers are:
>
> o All ISPs have an outage mailing list. Ask your ISP to get on theirs.
I agree. Tell your ISP you want an outage mailing list, and you would
like it if the ISP actually posted outage information to that list. I
got back on the Sprint list, my subscription having vanished, and Sprint
list has improved a lot. CNN and http://www.news.com/ still seem to
"scoop" most providers though.
> o For overall info, Stan Barber is running an outage mailing list.
I just checked my subscription, and I think I'm still subscribed to it.
But I haven't seen anything posted on outage-discuss@academ.com since
last year. The last thing I remember was a brief announcement of
Craig's Inter-Provider Notification web pages. The outage list hosted
by dal.net seems to have more traffic, although a lot of it obviously
involves dal.net IRC servers.
