[Outages-discussion] [outages] Fixing "Google Down?"

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Adams" <cma at cmadams.net>
> To: "Ryan Chewning" <ryan at chewning.us>
> Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:40:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Fixing "Google Down?"

> Once upon a time, Ryan Chewning <ryan at chewning.us> said:
>> To add onto what Richard is saying. when you include your region it's also
>> helpful to provide any information about your upstream carriers or if
>> you're multi-homed which carrier you're seeing the outage over.
> 
> Also include what IP(s) you're trying to reach (I've been guilty of
> forgetting this).  Like - I had issues getting to smtp.google.com
> earlier, but it was just one IP.  I got a different IP from a different
> recursive server and it worked.

Assuming you have any way to tell; this is *precisely* the use case I expect
D'oh! to demolish as a useful diagnostic.

Cheers,
-- jra
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