[outages] Wiki stuff

Gadi Evron ge at linuxbox.org
Tue Jun 24 02:23:46 EDT 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, CunningPike wrote:
> What about good, old-fashioned IRC for live discussion of outages, sharing of 
> tracerts etc? The mailing list could then be used for planned outage 
> announcements, updates of current outage status and other announcement-style 
> posts.
>
> The wiki could host less volatile information - tools, techniques, public NOC 
> contacts, etc.
>

We have a mailing list, maybe soon a wiki. No IRC right now (yet) or our 
community would die.

 	Gadi.

> CP
>
> Janet Sullivan wrote:
>> It occurs to me that this list may in the future be better served by two 
>> lists - one for outage announcements, and one for discussion.  However, as 
>> this is currently the only list, I'll begin here.
>> 
>> One of the topics I would like to see on an outages wiki would be a list 
>> of sites one could check for outages.  See 
>> http://www.bgp4.net/wiki/doku.php?id=links:network_status for an old 
>> example that never really got off the ground.   I don't really care where 
>> such a list lives - but I've wanted one more than once.  Does anyone have 
>> any good links?
>> 
>> What other kinds of topics would be good for an outages wiki?  At first I 
>> was thinking that major outages (undersea cables, etc.) could be posted & 
>> available via RSS, but I don't see that being kept up to date well in the 
>> long run.  Point being, someone would need to keep it up to date, and when 
>> things are really, really fubar, I imagine most of the people here will be 
>> busy with other things. ;-)
>> 
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