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</style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;">Maybe level 3 have more vocal or higher profile customer base? Personally speaking I've found level 3 to have outstanding service and network availibility.<br><br>Neil. </span><br><br><hr><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Security Admin (NetSec) <secadmin@netsecdesign.com></span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">12 July 2007 06:56</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu></span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Level(3) faux paux</span><br><br><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal">I have noticed that Level(3) misconfigs/outages seem to happen more frequently than with most other Tier 1�s. Am unsure whether or not this is a mis-statement, but based on NANOG posts, Level(3) [AS3356] seems to show up more often with issues than say Sprint [AS1239]. Is their any one (or any coporation) that keeps track of outages such as these? Would think it might be a good thing to know for proper mulit-homing relationships to minimize the type of outage that Yahoo faced�<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">SecAdmin (aka Edward Ray)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></HTML>