[30207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in UK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Tue Jul 18 16:48:26 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:41:55 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <p04320401b59a6ea30d85@[206.79.44.101]>; from dredd@megacity.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:33:05PM -0700
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:33:05PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> For a network provider, I would postulate that "e-mail to pager
> gateway service" is equivalent to "no service".
>
> Or do you plan on bringing on having someone manually set up a link
> between you and the paging company to deliver the "network
> connectivity is hosed" pages.
The question was about a downed server. I assumed that there was some
monitoring offsite that wants paging.
> TAP (or other out-of-band) delivery method is currently (near as I
> can tell) best-practice for sending alpha pages CONCERNING the
> network. :)
>
> In that vein, I would recommend qpage (www.qpage.org), which --
> although largely unsupported [1], works exceptionally well.
Agreed - I was using qpage to hit Hutchinson pagers.
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