JS> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:48:25 -0400 JS> From: James Smith JS> I think we all assume that our provider "guarantees" us some JS> sort of "total reachability". Near as I can figure, they do JS> not. Therefore, you buy a pipe into their network based on JS> percieved and actual connectivity and hope that the situation JS> remains static at best. Does ANY provider give a JS> "reachability" guarantee? <iirc memory="bad"> Wasn't there a small russian ISP that had no access to _1_ during the mid- or late-90s? And didn't some ugly peering battles between 701 and 3561 back when 3561 was MCI cause some { severely hampered | loss of } connectivity between the two? </iirc> Help me out... I wasn't following routing and such very closely back then. But it seems that none of this is new, just another iteration of the same... -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.