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RE: If the network is always down, how come I can post a message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Fri Nov 3 10:29:18 2000
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Alex Bligh' <amb@gxn.net>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:24:25 -0800
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For the telco, use www.dialpad.com ... it rocks!
For the Internet, there are always portions that are not quite working. This
will get worse, the larger it gets. I'm a CerfNet down-stream and ATT/Cerf
digestion problems have been making me crazy for the past few months (routes
going up, down, side-ways, you name it ...). In fact, it's getting to the
point that I'm about to start recommending at least three different
upstreams to clients (multi-home). The problem with that is that CIDR gets
in the way. I plan to take it up, with ICANN/ASO in about a week.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Bligh [mailto:amb@gxn.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:07 AM
> To: Sean Donelan
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: If the network is always down, how come I can post a
> message
>
>
>
> Sean,
>
> This is because the phone system is considered down when the
> subscriber
> can dial no numbers. The internet is considered down when you can't
> reach any particular web site (or collection thereof). If people
> can't reach a given company by phone they say 'their phone line is
> down'. I have given up counting the number of times I have spent
> trying to dial the US from the UK and got fast busy (or worse).
>
> --
> Alex Bligh
> VP Core Network, XO Communications - http://www.xo.com/
> (formerly Nextlink Inc, Concentric Network Corporation
> GX Networks, Xara Networks)
>
>
>
