[outages] Anyone seeing major IP problems right now?

[Dave Hart]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:48, Johnson, Robert P.
<Robert_Johnson2 at medco.com> wrote:
> I think this might have just been a quick question due to an issue they were
> addressing.   Probably busy t-shooting and just wanted to get it out there,
> just in case others were having a problem.

At any given moment, I guarantee you someone somewhere is seeing
internet connectivity problems.  If they all posted to outages with
similarly vague reports, the signal/noise ratio would be so low, no
one would read it.  I'm asking medco.com and everyone else who is
tempted to ask, in effect, "is anyone else seeing any problems
anywhere on any carriers?" to provide enough detail to localize the
problem to specific carrier(s) and specific locations (endpoints or
apparent trouble spots from traces), or just keep quiet respecting the
need for signal amongst the noise.

I'm willing to hear I'm asking too much, from the list owner, or
others sufficiently clued to have provided useful details when they
post here about new issues.  Not so much from coworkers of people
reporting problems here lacking key details and soliciting responses
likely to be similarly devoid of useful details, as they're the ones
dragging down the signal:noise ratio here, which is already low and
seems to be getting worse.

Thanks for your understanding,
Dave Hart