[outages] Anyone seeing major IP problems right now?

[Joseph Jackson]

On 11/19/2011 06:19 AM, Dave Hart wrote:
> 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

Agreed.  If you have time to post a message you have time to do a quick 
mtr/traceroute or at least give some further information on what issues 
are being seen.

"The Internet is broken!" is for my mom using her cable modem not people 
posting on this list.

Joseph