Well sometimes that's valuable and sometimes people make genuine mistakes which they really shouldn't be publically called on the carpet for. I will say to everyone that every time I have had to post to nanog I have always gotten a very helpful response and all were operational in nature. I think that having this open channel for issues whether it be discussion of policy and standard or the occasional help its broken and I can't find anyone via normal channels is great. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Scott Granados wrote:
Nope, nobody responded from noc@above.net so I tried here, got a response and was all set. Helpful once you get around the noc where we had no response.
IMHO posting to nanog to contact a Noc should be the last resort. If you have no response to email you should try various numbers you have for their Noc, then your account manager (they love getting called at 3am cause the Noc won't respond to customers) , then the people in whois etc etc.
At that point you could post to nanog asking. But if possible make your query a value added for others of us who might be considering using the provider in the future. Sentences like "I sat on hold for 30 minutes and the line went dead" , "leaking RFC 1918 space" , "Changed ip without notice" are useful...
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