Sorry guys, this one got loose.

-----Original Message----- From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:58 PM To: 'idno-discuss@idno.org'; LIST Domain Policy (E-mail); LIST ORSC (E-mail); DNSO. ORG Discuss (E-mail); 'wg-review@dnso.org'; NANOG (E-mail) Cc: Morfin, Jefsey; Teernstra, Joop Subject: [wg-review] ping

Two things; Does this list work? Is my email working?

MHSC is currently recovering from a one month outage caused by our access provider and our upstream ISP failing to play well together.

We were forced to switch to another ISP and we have lost our /24 net-block in the process. I am now trying to shoe-horn 62 servers, formerly using over 130 IP addresses, into 32 addresses. SpeakEasy.Net does not seem to be competent to manage delegation of /24s.

I still have a lot of work to do ...

The outage was unannounced and it wasn't technically-based. MHSC got caught in the cross-fire between two other companies (our vendors) having a feud. The two companies were Covad and DSLnetworks. Our new ISP (SpeakEasy.Net) doesn't have the level of competent service that we need so we are still looking for another provider. Hopefully, one that will let us divorce Covad (MHSC no longer trusts Covad to provide reliable access). Until then, we are forced to stay with SpeakEasy, by Covad, or we will suffer yet another outage, which Covad guarantees to be at least 45 days. Over 60% of our services will remain off-line until we can recover enough revenue to pay for co-lo space.

Multiple T1's are looking real attractive right now, but lead-times are horrible.

Covad claims non-payment, DSLnetworks claims otherwise. All I know is that MHSC got stomped as collateral damage. As far as we're concerned, anyone that lets a customer get 18 months, in arrearage, is mis-managing their market. IOW, the fault is on both sides. -- This message was passed to you via the wg-review@dnso.org list. Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe ("unsubscribe wg-review" in the body of the message). Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html