Apologies. NANOG is doing the right thing (in not munging reply-to), and Zimbra is doing the wrong thing (in not having a reply-to-list button, even though I filed the RFC 5 years and 3 major revisions ago); sometimes (usually Before Coffee, like now), I hand-fill the wrong address.
Cheers, -- jra ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Ashworth" <[email protected]> > To: "NANOG" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:48:53 AM > Subject: Re: [outages] comcast/sprint oddities > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <[email protected]> > > > If you really wanted to bring this up with Sprint, you would need to > > have a relationship with them, and you would *need* to provide > > source > > and destination IPs. > > And there's the point that makes fixing this stuff such a bitch: you > almost > never have a relationship with anyone except the carrier you connect > through > (and sometimes not even them :-). > > This is, incidentally, why my professional recommendation to people > setting > up "nailed up" links over the Internet is to move heaven and earth to > get every point on the same carrier, or to make sure, at the very > least > that there is only one exchange point in the middle, and you're a > customer > of the carrier on both sides of it. > > Having to escalate through 3 or 4 carriers to get something fixed > isn't > just time consuming, it's often impossible. > > Social engineering NOC hotlines (as much as I hate to advocate it) is > often the only solution; bring your Geek License. :-) > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
