Sorry, ping

Fri Apr 6 10:36:25 UTC 2001

Sorry guys, this one got loose.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:rmeyer at mhsc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:58 PM
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> Cc: Morfin, Jefsey; Teernstra, Joop
> Subject: [wg-review] ping
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> 
> Two things;
> Does this list work?
> Is my email working?
> 
> MHSC is currently recovering from a one month outage caused 
> by our access
> provider and our upstream ISP failing to play well together.
> 
> We were forced to switch to another ISP and we have lost our 
> /24 net-block
> in the process. I am now trying to shoe-horn 62 servers, 
> formerly using over
> 130 IP addresses, into 32 addresses. SpeakEasy.Net does not seem to be
> competent to manage delegation of /24s.
> 
> I still have a lot of work to do ...
> 
> The outage was unannounced and it wasn't technically-based. 
> MHSC got caught
> in the cross-fire between two other companies (our vendors) 
> having a feud.
> The two companies were Covad and DSLnetworks. Our new ISP 
> (SpeakEasy.Net)
> doesn't have the level of competent service that we need so 
> we are still
> looking for another provider. Hopefully, one that will let us 
> divorce Covad
> (MHSC no longer trusts Covad to provide reliable access). 
> Until then, we are
> forced to stay with SpeakEasy, by Covad, or we will suffer yet another
> outage, which Covad guarantees to be at least 45 days. Over 60% of our
> services will remain off-line until we can recover enough 
> revenue to pay for
> co-lo space.
> 
> Multiple T1's are looking real attractive right now, but 
> lead-times are
> horrible.
> 
> Covad claims non-payment, DSLnetworks claims otherwise. All I 
> know is that
> MHSC got stomped as collateral damage. As far as we're 
> concerned, anyone
> that lets a customer get 18 months, in arrearage, is 
> mis-managing their
> market. IOW, the fault is on both sides.
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