Re: Better description of what happened

[PJ Capelli via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

I probably still have my US Robotics 14.4 in the basement, but it's been awhile since I've had access to a POTS line it 
would work on ... :)

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On Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 at 10:41 AM, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com> wrote:

> On 10/5/21 5:51 AM, scott wrote:

> > On 10/5/21 8:39 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:

> > > This bit posted by Randy might get lost in the other thread, but it appears that their DNS withdraws BGP routes 
> > > for prefixes that they can't reach or are flaky it seems. Apparently that goes for the prefixes that the name 
> > > servers are on too. This caused internal outages too as it seems they use their front facing DNS just like 
> > > everybody else.

> > > Sounds like they might consider having at least one split horizon server internally. Lots of fodder here.

> even a POTS line connected to a modem connected to a serial port on a workstation in the data enter so that you can 
> talk to whatever you need to talk to.  I would go so far as to have other outgoing serial connections to routers from 
> that workstation. It's ugly, but it provides remote out of band disaster management.  Just sayin'

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> > Move fast; break things? :)

> > scott

> > > >

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