[10258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI outages (summary)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Thu Jun 26 17:17:59 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:06:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Robert_Gutierrez@3com.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <882564C2.0064EAB4.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com>
From what I understand of MCI's peering agreement, you have to come into
at least 3 NAPs with DS3 bandwidth or better to even be considered to
peer. So, I think if you peer with MCI, you'd definitely carry enough
weight with them that they'd take an interest with what problems you have.
Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
"Learn more, and you will never starve." - Paraphrase of Lee
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 Robert_Gutierrez@3com.com wrote:
> OK, here's a scenario for you. Traceroute fails inside MCI somewhere. So
> you
> call your upstream, and said upstream only has a peering relationship with
> MCI -- ie: not a paying customer. I'm under the impression that unless
> you're
> a paying customer, then (to quote a 70's phrase) "you don't have nothin'
> comin'".
>
> For those ISP/IBP's out there, can a BGP peer open a trouble ticket with
> you to have a problem looked at? Or does the "paying customer" have to
> open the TT. What if I can't get the "paying customer" to open up the TT
> (ie: you think I can get sex.com to open a TT with their upstream, as if
> they
> would care longer than the time to hit the "D" key on my message).
>
> rob
>
>
>
