At 3:21 PM -0500 3/29/02, Sean Donelan among other things wrote:
If you are a customer of provider A, and the problem is inside providers B network what is the appropriate method to get provider B to fix the problem?
1. Call provider A. Open a trouble ticket. Provider A forwards the ticket through the chain of providers to Provider B. Provider B accepts the trouble ticket. B find the problem in their network and fixes it, closing the trouble ticket back to A.
2. Call provider A. Provider A says its not a problem with A's network and closes the ticket. A tells customer, call Provider B. User looks up Provider B's contact information. User calls Provider B and is told, we don't take calls from non-customers, call Provider A. Rinse and Repeat.
3. Call lawyer. Sue Provider A and B for tortious interference with the user's peaceful enjoyment of the Internet by negligently and/or fraudently propagating false routing information and failing to correct the problem after being notified by the user.
Or 2a. Call provider A. Provider A says its not a problem with A's network and closes the ticket. A tells customer, call Provider B. User looks up Provider B's contact information. User calls Provider B and Provider B opens a trouble ticket. B finds the problem in their network and fixes it, closing the trouble ticket back to the user. 2b. Call provider A. Provider A says its not a problem with A's network and closes the ticket. A tells customer, call Provider B. User looks up Provider B's contact information. User calls Provider B and is told, we don't take calls from non-customers, call Provider A. User replaces Provider A with a more responsive provider and moves back to option 1. I like option 2b better than option 3. Both 2b and 3 will take longer than you want, but 2b is likely to be faster than 3. 2a isn't my favorite path, but if it gets the problem fixed, I can live with it. -Jeff