[15511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can you explain why paths to same host diverge?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Sat Feb 28 00:44:46 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 23:41:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>
To: jhawk@bbnplanet.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
> Subject: Re: Can you explain why paths to same host diverge?
> To: booloo@cats.ucsc.edu (Mark Boolootian)
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:11:48 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> [...]
> I feel obligated to ask -- is there some reason you didn't
> direct your query to Sprint, before asking NANOG? It really seems like
> this is the kind of question they should be able to answer for you,
> and diagnose the problem to some extent. I can't see a good reason to ask
> here without asking the providers in question, first.
> [...]
I rather suspect that you provided a much more interesting, and much
more public, answer than Mark would have received from Sprint. Now,
if you hadn't provided such an informative answer, your question might
be a better fit.
-tjs
