RE: Monitoring other people's sites (Was: Website for ipv6.level3.com returns "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error")

["Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>]

I and my customers users IPv6-enabled sites.  If it doesn't work (a hopefully their web browser uses HE) I want to 
know, and know when it happens.  Yes, many sites aren't monitoring their own IPv6-connected content, but I've had 
reasonably good success privately letting them know when it's down.  And communicating to them when it's down lets them 
know that people care and want to access their IPv6-enabled content.  Last, monitoring IPv6 access to many different 
sites brings our own connectivity issues to the surface as they arise -- we had one inside Level3's network last week 
Friday and it was resolved about 18 hours later.  If we had not monitored it's possible it would be much longer before 
it was discovered and troubleshot through the regular sequence of events.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jeroen () unfix org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:54 AM
To: Vinny_Abello () Dell com
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Monitoring other people's sites (Was: Website for ipv6.level3.com returns "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error")

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 And for the few folks putting nagios's on other people's sites, they
obviously do not understand that even if the alarm goes off that
something is broken that they cannot fix it anyway, thus why bother...