According to the C&W engineer I spoke
with, C&W stopped announcing its routes. So PSINET was unable to
find the peering routers. (deaf, dumb and blind). A meeting was held
last night between the two and a temporary agreement was reached. Part of
this agreement was that all routes would be back in place by morning.
Which they were. They agreed that over the next 60 days they would meet
and try to work out an more lasting agreement (what ever that means) to prevent
this from occurring again.
Now that is the official words. Here is my
opinion. Customers like my company, after getting slapped in the face last
night with that crappy e-mail, responded like I did. Either fix it or we
would be order new T1's to replace C&W's. This is exactly what I told
them. We are paying them good money to C&W and none of their
customer base was even questioned how this would affect our local
business. I must tell you I really pissed this morning when they called
me. It must have done some good.
Respectfully,
Morris Allen
VidcomNet, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:56
PM
Subject: RE: C&W Perring
So which side is doing the
pre-pending?
Network
Next Hop
Metric LocPrf Weight Path
* 12.10.44.0/23 166.49.26.73
50 100 0 3561 174 174
174 174 4550 11937 i
David
To all:
I just got off the phone
with Cable & Wireless. A 60 day continuation of peering with
PSINET was reached last night. The peering is back up and we can now
find PSINET DNS server again. More on this as I am made
aware.
Respectfully,
Morris Allen
President
VidcomNet, Inc.