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Re: [outages] comcast/sprint oddities


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:50:31 -0400 (EDT)

Apologies.  NANOG is doing the right thing (in not munging reply-to),
and Zimbra is doing the wrong thing (in not having a reply-to-list button,
even though I filed the RFC 5 years and 3 major revisions ago); sometimes
(usually Before Coffee, like now), I hand-fill the wrong address.

Cheers,
-- jra

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
To: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:48:53 AM
Subject: Re: [outages] comcast/sprint oddities
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <jdc () koitsu org>

If you really wanted to bring this up with Sprint, you would need to
have a relationship with them, and you would *need* to provide
source
and destination IPs.

And there's the point that makes fixing this stuff such a bitch: you
almost
never have a relationship with anyone except the carrier you connect
through
(and sometimes not even them :-).

This is, incidentally, why my professional recommendation to people
setting
up "nailed up" links over the Internet is to move heaven and earth to
get every point on the same carrier, or to make sure, at the very
least
that there is only one exchange point in the middle, and you're a
customer
of the carrier on both sides of it.

Having to escalate through 3 or 4 carriers to get something fixed
isn't
just time consuming, it's often impossible.

Social engineering NOC hotlines (as much as I hate to advocate it) is
often the only solution; bring your Geek License. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274

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Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra () baylink com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com         2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA               #natog                      +1 727 647 1274


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