On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:50:15 +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com> wrote:
1. Did you try using inoc-dba to contact other Austrian providers like ACONET to ask them this question?
2. After you finally made contact with Austrian Telecom, did you tell them about the inoc-dba system and direct them to the URL with information about how to get connected?
Man, that's a question that's really worth asking - and I do keep asking it whenever I see the periodic "paging $provider" emails. INOC-DBA, the Cisco NSP list.. and there's always ARIN / RIPE whois contacts, that do have a phone number available .. and quite frequently that is the only way to contact a provider if they're unreachable from your corner of the internet thanks to a backhoe incident, fat fingered firewall ACL or whatever. Maybe a nanog FAQ entry on "how to hunt for provider contact information"? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)