RE: "The internet is slow"

Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems. Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!? Jack -----Original Message----- From: McBurnett, Jim [mailto:jmcburnett@msmgmt.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:57 PM To: Richard A Steenbergen; Rick Ernst Cc: NANOG Subject: RE: "The internet is slow" But isn't that the purpose of NANOG? To fix the major problems before the world knows about them. I would much rather discuss a problem here and solve it and tell a reported, Yes (sir,or mam) the Internet commnity worked togather to solve the problem...... Than say, I don't it just cleared up it's all a mystery....... :) J -----Original Message----- From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras@e-gerbil.net] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:53 PM To: Rick Ernst Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: "The internet is slow" On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:02:32PM -0700, Rick Ernst wrote:
Packet loss within UUNET, apparently localized to the Portland (OR) area. I've turned down our peer with them and things are looking much better.
Thanks for all the help/responses.
Shhhhhhh, next thing you know some reporter is going to be writing a story about how the NANOG mailing list fixed that darn "the internet is slow" problem everyone has been complaining about. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

I thought that procedure was patented. By who is left as an excercise for the reader. Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:03 AM Subject: RE: "The internet is slow" Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems. Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!? Jack -----Original Message----- From: McBurnett, Jim [mailto:jmcburnett@msmgmt.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:57 PM To: Richard A Steenbergen; Rick Ernst Cc: NANOG Subject: RE: "The internet is slow" But isn't that the purpose of NANOG? To fix the major problems before the world knows about them. I would much rather discuss a problem here and solve it and tell a reported, Yes (sir,or mam) the Internet commnity worked togather to solve the problem...... Than say, I don't it just cleared up it's all a mystery....... :) J -----Original Message----- From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras@e-gerbil.net] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:53 PM To: Rick Ernst Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: "The internet is slow" On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:02:32PM -0700, Rick Ernst wrote:
Packet loss within UUNET, apparently localized to the Portland (OR) area. I've turned down our peer with them and things are looking much better.
Thanks for all the help/responses.
Shhhhhhh, next thing you know some reporter is going to be writing a story about how the NANOG mailing list fixed that darn "the internet is slow" problem everyone has been complaining about. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com wrote:
Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems.
Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!?
Defrag gives better results -- Subhi S Hashwa *** subhi@thebigboss.com --- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com wrote:
Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems.
Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!?
Not a problem. At what time shall we reboot it? I was thinking late at night. -Jack

Didn't most of us just do that a couple weeks ago? -C On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com wrote:
Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems.
Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!?
Jack
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Chris Woodfield
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Jack Bates
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Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com
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