[167127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sina Owolabi)
Mon Dec 2 00:41:41 2013
In-Reply-To: <CEC129C5.E0B8%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: "Warren Bailey" <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>, "Dobbins,
Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Sina Owolabi <notify.sina@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 05:40:59 +0000
Reply-To: notifysina@gmail.com
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