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Sorry guys, this one got loose. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:58 PM > To: '[email protected]'; LIST Domain Policy (E-mail); LIST ORSC > (E-mail); DNSO. ORG Discuss (E-mail); '[email protected]'; NANOG > (E-mail) > Cc: Morfin, Jefsey; Teernstra, Joop > Subject: [wg-review] ping > > > 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. > -- > This message was passed to you via the [email protected] list. > Send mail to [email protected] to unsubscribe > ("unsubscribe wg-review" in the body of the message). > Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html >
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