[2985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mae-west route servers are both down hard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sat May 25 01:17:48 1996
To: nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 23:18:53 EDT."
<199605250319.UAA26102@lint.cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 22:14:55 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> Let me see if I correctly understand this. The RA services at MAE-West
> were never declared operational, yet there are service & transit providers
> using them for production services?
>
> If so, this will still be interpreted as a black eye for the RSs.
You're right. Technically the fault was with us (we who let our production
peerage depend on nonproduction devices in the middle). But the eye most
blackened by this week's events will be, undeservedly, the RA's.
My own view is: good idea, bad execution in this instance. We're fixing it.
