[93689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GBLX issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Taber)
Wed Dec 13 16:07:28 2006
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:01:38 -0500
From: Matt Taber <tabes@wmis.net>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612131346220.28102@pegasus.billn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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Bill Nash wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Aaron Glenn wrote:
>
>> On 12/13/06, J. Oquendo <sil@infiltrated.net> wrote:
>>> Anyone seeing issues for GBLX around NY?
>>>
>> dude, chill. no need to yell.
>> you know, GBLX sells a lot of different stuff - are we talking IP
>> transit, MPLS transport, wavelength, voice? what kind of issues? how
>> is anyone going to know what you're talking about when you're as vague
>> as humanly possible.
>>
>
> You're awful at this game. When faced with a totally vague question,
> lacking context or useful information, it's up to you to supply your own.
>
> Start with, always:
> "Yes, <vendor> is having problems in <location>."
>
> Then, tap your coworkers for assistance:
> 1: Name a hardware Vendor (the lower the stock value, the better)
> 2: Name a transport technology (frame relay, sonet, etc)
> 3: A number between 1 and 10.
> 4: A number between 8 and 32.
> 5: A seasonally relevent catastrophic event (snow storm, backhoe,
> exploding squirrel)
>
> Respond: "Yes, <vendor> is having problems in <location>. Seems <5> hit
> this morning around <3> am, effecting <2> connections in that location.
> <Vendor> is having problems getting backup systems online, because they
> were idiots and deployed <1> gear without failover. At last check, it'll
> be at least <4> hours before they get things sorted out."
>
> - billn
>
>
>
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