[23120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GateD + OSPF Q
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Wed Feb 24 19:43:23 1999
To: Andrea Di Lecce <slinky@rogerswave.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:07:22 EST."
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:39:25 -0800
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
> At 10:34 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Brandon Applegate wrote:
> >
> >> Would a question about GateD with OSPF be off topic for the list ??
> >
> >Yes
>
> I disagree. The main reason I personally read this list is to listen and
> learn. It would be a sad state of affairs if an operational or technical
> question was off-topic, don't you think ?
There are other lists where gated is discussed; an excellent way to
find them is to start at http://www.gated.org/, as was suggested by
Nathan Stratton.
This list is supposed to be primarily about *interprovider* issues.
From the mailing list charter/AUP:
The NANOG mailing list is established to provide a forum for the
exchange of technical information and the discussion of specific
implementation issues that require cooperation among network service
providers.
That last clause is the important one: "that require cooperation among
network service providers."
There's probably nothing about gated with OSPF that requires
cooperation among network service providers, so the assumption that
the post would be off-topic *for NANOG* is valid.
This isn't entirely about keeping such traffic off NANOG, either; the
gated lists are MUCH more likely to provide help in the area of "gated
with OSPF."
Stephen
