BBN bitten again?
David Carmean
dlc at silcom.com
Fri Nov 1 19:32:13 UTC 1996
I haven't seen any traffic on outage-discuss at academ.com in the
month that I've been subscribed, so I don't know if this has
been hashed over already. Perhaps this discussion should be
redirected there, but...
I think it might be useful to have a list that an ISP or other
Net user could check to see if a problem had been _reported_,
or to see the extent of an outage as reported by the users of
the systems in question. I know my helpdesk people would like
to know about unreachable sites before they go having
Joe Luser tear apart his trumpwsk.ini. I realize NANOG is
not the place, but neither is a cacophony like inet-access.
There are only a few vendors using the RA's IPN page...and
outage-discuss is for the discussion of mechanisms to report
such...why not just create a list for the discussion of
outages themselves in the mean time?
In a previous message, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
[snip]
> and we can form a group that wants to go after vendors.
[snip]
> It makes no sense to report outages here, all the NOCs of isps
> do not monitor this list, and it would not make sense for them to either,
> becuase currently it has too high of a ratio of unimportant stuff per
> important and good knowledge.
>
> - jared
>
> Randy Bush graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> > > Since early yesterday, much or all of BBN Cambridge has been down.
> > > Anyone know what is going on?
> >
> > I know this will come as a complete shock to you. But the probability that
> > the BBN NOC does is above 0.5, and that the members of this list do is below
> > 0.1.
> >
> > Contrary to some people's belief, this list is not the worldwide NOC or
> > trouble reporting system.
> >
> > randy
> >
>
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