On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:34:46 +0100 (BST) Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> alleged:
Some of us are very sensitive about this, and once when we lost all connecivity to the outside of the UK (going back about 18 months now) we made sure we *phoned* a couple of LINX peers (thanks to those at PIPEX and JANET at the time) to ask if we could just add forwarder entried in our DNS servers towards them for some level of name service. JANET was also down - same tx atlanic cable, but PIPEX had connectivity. They said yes, and then we did. I treat unwelcome data at whatever level as theft of something that belongs to me/us etc.
Slight detail, The LINX didn't exist then and it was PIPEX and EUNET that was used.
The really sad thing is that in that 18 months, I can't see the above being repeated again, since most ISPs are now run by faceless monsters and not the engineers (who made it all work). Death of the net predicted... pics at 11.
Yah, I agree. I'm seeing it more and more everyday! Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. E A S Y N E T G R O U P P L C neil@EASYNET.NET NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>