[outages] whois-servers.net down?

[John Payne]

On Sep 22, 2008, at 6:33 PM, virendra rode wrote:

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> John Payne wrote:
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>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:03 PM, virendra rode  
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>> Seems to be reachable from los angeles.
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>>> If we must play the "it's ok from here" game can we at least be a  
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>>> more useful than the typically meaningless geographical-only  
>>> comments?
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> True enough, but in the interest of keeping it short I excluded the
> whois output and other diags.

I guess I was under verbose.  Except paired with a natural disaster,  
geography alone is not a useful "up/down" metric.  "XO in LA" is  
useful. "LA" is not.