On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: <rant snipped>
This is a blind message. I don't even know if it's getting out of my mail hub. Theoretically, it should. You won't be able to reply. I can route out, but nothing can get back in. That's strange. As far as I know, TCP requires a two-way handshake. :)
130 IP addrs, on a /27 <heh>. We talked earlier about how non-portable addresses suck. Here is the reason why. I either use one of their SafetyNet Portable address wouldn't help you, since safetynet'd ISP won't talk BGP to you. What you could do is (with agreement of your current ISP who owns the IPs) is to go into any colo centers, put up your hardware, and tell the colo ISP to advertise your netblocks.
would have been able to avoid the outage. (BTW, my ISDN backup feed is dead as well). I've tried contacting Covad, thier executive staff, etc. No joy there, Covad doesn't care. Its going from "We don't care, we don't have to" to "We don't care, we can't afford to". Covad (and its wholesalers) experienced major collection problems, and they are cutting off the wholesalers who don't pay their bills.
100% of MHSC business is directly dependent on our Internet feed. 100% of February revenue is gone. I had two product roll-outs that were scheduled DSL is not supposed to be bet-the-business-on product. I'm sure it'll sound silly now, but if you have 80k$ revenue, you could afford a T1 which has very different ETR timelines compared to DSL, and that does not involve so many companies involved in its delivery/billing process.
for the following week. Both are now dead issues. MHSC does CA for some of it's customers, renumbering invalidates all those CAs. Every lead we were working is now gone, probably forever, and so are many existing customers. I may misunderstand something, but if CA means 'X509 certificate authority', why would it invalidate anything? CAs have CN, which is a name, not IP address.
I'm looking at probable business failure. MHSC could sue, but may not survive long enough to collect, even if we win. If MHSC survives this then "Damn, I good!"
I urge everyone, do not; 1) Recommend Covad as a DSL provider 2) Become a Covad partner. 3) Remain on Covad service, find someone else (Rythyms sound good) http://biz.yahoo.com/p/r/rthm.html, the financial situation of rhythms is not much better than Covad or Northpoint. According their current cash burn rate, they'll run out of cash sometime this year.
Further, if you have any Covad stock ... sell it. Too late, its around 2 dollars now.
The simple reason is that Covad has shown themselves unworthy of trust. They will cut off service arbitrarily, without direct cause, without compansation or recourse, and without warning. This is NOT the sort of behavior desired from an outfit in charge of your key infrastructure. You are missing something. Covad did not cut off the service to you. Covad cut off the service to DSLnetworks. DSLnetworks was not paying bills, and it is their (dslnetworks) fault that they didn't disclose their financial situation earlier to their subscribers.
I hope that this comes to the attention of Covad and I hope that they don't like it! MHSC will also be filing complaints with the CA-PUC and everywhere else that we can. But, a four-year process will not help MHSC stay in business. MHSC is already preparing a Marketing Communication plan to get this story out. MHSC tried dealing with this peacfully and got ignored, by Covad. Covad needs to be shunned by the rest of the Internet community, as a bad net-citizen. I'm in no way trying to apologise for Covad (they got what was coming to them), but your problems could've been averted with a T1 or redundant connections.
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