[46449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Help with bad announcement from UUnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Fri Mar 29 06:40:56 2002
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 05:35:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
To: "Mark E. Mallett" <mem@mv.mv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I realize the original problem has been fixed, but I'd like to find out if
someone does have a contact at UUnet which will help with these types of
issues. In particular, when I've been having a problem reaching
UUNet-connected sites and needed to contact the uunet noc, I get almost
the same response as Mark did initially, i.e.:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > I have contacted UUnet and have been told to take it up with my
> > upstreams 'cuz they won't deal directly with me. They also said to
> > have a nice day.
I realize I don't have a direct relationship with UUnet. But trying to
get my upstream to talk to their upstream to talk to UUnet just to get
someone at uunet to do a traceroute or tell me what is showing up in their
(uunet's) BGP tables is just plain rediculous.
Does anyone have better contact information than "call their unhelpful
noc"?
- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE
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