[outages] List comment

[Jay Hennigan]

Derrick Bennett wrote:
> When I signed up for outages I was really hoping for something like what 
> Sean Donelan used to do for Nanog. He had an occupation where he knew 
> about every major cable cut or issue and reported it to the Nanog 
> mailing list. I really miss that level of outage knowledge that we used 
> to see.
>  
> I think that something like outages alert could work even with the 
> current group. The issue is one of is it a real issue that affects a 
> large enough group. For this I think the mailing list with the website 
> could put in a voting idea. Using a footer in the message people could 
> click that to vote and say this is a confirmed issue and select if it's 
> minor or major and regional or larger impact. After a set number of 
> votes hit then the system could send an email to outage-alerts which 
> would be a much lower traffic but a much higher confidence list. That 
> would allow outages to still discuss troubleshooting without imapct the 
> blackberry and pager audience.
>  
> I have always looked for a way to be alerted to outages but only one's 
> that truly are an issue. Maybe this is one way to accomplish that ?

An outage is an issue if you're on one side of it trying to reach 
resources on the other side.  If not, then it's not.

I was chastised for posting a traceroute here in an attempt to resolve 
the question as to whether a route loop was within Cogent or at the 
destination AS.  IMNSHO this type of thing helps to define and isolate 
the outage.

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