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Re: UUNET issues?

  • From: Mark Smith
  • Date: Sun Nov 05 02:37:56 2006 
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:55:46 -0800
Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> >>>> "Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing?"
> >>> the internet is broken.  anyone know why?
> >> Did you ping it?
> >
> > is that what broke it?
> 
> Please.  That's how you *know* it's broken.
> 

With the prevalence of firewalls, I've found broken traceroutes to be a
much more reliable indicator of broken Internettedness.

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