Re: Carrier Recommendations

2007-07-21 Thread Timothy McKee
If this is for redundancy, also keep in mind that most 'cuts' occur in the last mile. Unless you are in a major facility with engineered entrance/egress diversity a failure will result in ALL terrestrial links failing. This is a very string argument for a limited bandwidth satellite or EV

RE: Carrier Recommendations

2007-07-21 Thread Rod Beck
Diverse entrances are standard in telecom hotels and major data centres. I don't think you have made the redundancy argument for satellite particularly given the relative expense of transponders vis-a-vis private line capacity on the major routes. However, it could play a role in some cases. Al

Re: DNS issues?

2007-07-21 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, NANOGers. This might help a bit when debugging root and TLD name server connectivity concerns: Thanks, Rob. -- Rob Thomas Team Cymru http://www.cymru.com/ cmn_err(do_panic, "Out of coffee!");