[3796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Carmean)
Wed Aug 21 11:57:47 1996
From: dlc@silcom.com (David Carmean)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:43:00 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960821080401.25233A-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Aug 21, 96 08:16:59 am
In a previous message, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
[snip]
> One thing that would help diagnose the true source of the problem with
> less human interaction required (avoiding voicemail and all that) would be
> wider public access to traceroutes beginning at key sites. There is a
> group of ISP's who make CGI-based traceroutes available from their sites
> at http://amazing.netaxs.com/internet/club-traceroute.html
>
> In this instance, it would have helped if the Internic had a CGI
> traceroute available from their site but I think it would also be a nice
> thing if the major NSP's would make this same kind of facility available
> from their exchange points.
FWIW, Digex has such an animal which appears to run commands on their
routers at MAE-E, MAE-W, and the Sprint NAP:
<http://nitrous.digex.net/>
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