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For the telco, use www.dialpad.com ... it rocks! For the Internet, there are always portions that are not quite working. This will get worse, the larger it gets. I'm a CerfNet down-stream and ATT/Cerf digestion problems have been making me crazy for the past few months (routes going up, down, side-ways, you name it ...). In fact, it's getting to the point that I'm about to start recommending at least three different upstreams to clients (multi-home). The problem with that is that CIDR gets in the way. I plan to take it up, with ICANN/ASO in about a week. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Bligh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:07 AM > To: Sean Donelan > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: If the network is always down, how come I can post a > message > > > > Sean, > > This is because the phone system is considered down when the > subscriber > can dial no numbers. The internet is considered down when you can't > reach any particular web site (or collection thereof). If people > can't reach a given company by phone they say 'their phone line is > down'. I have given up counting the number of times I have spent > trying to dial the US from the UK and got fast busy (or worse). > > -- > Alex Bligh > VP Core Network, XO Communications - http://www.xo.com/ > (formerly Nextlink Inc, Concentric Network Corporation > GX Networks, Xara Networks) > > >
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