PTCL was dumb to block youtube. PCCW was even dumber to ignore best
practices and not filter route annoucements from customer ISPs against
routing registries etc [long standing best practice to guard against typos
in router configs or something similar]. And still dumber to cut off the
entire PTCL AS till the issue got fixed.
I never did say PCCW wasnt dumb. They're our upstreams in HKG and I know
how dumb, painfully, from first hand experience (but well, they're a bit
more professional and good at "the basics" of service than vsnl / ptcl etc
would ever be in their lives, that's an entirely different, stratospheric
element of dumbness)
srs
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [02/03/08 12:46 -0600]:
More interestingly - is there a "caste system" in the IT sector in which
>working for a foreign multinational telecom company makes an employee less
>dumb that the average MTNL or BSNL employee?
well in this case it was clearly PCCW (not really a poor 3rd world
provider) that was pretty dumb; i get the impression they were actually
dumber than pk tel (in technical terms; i think blocking youtube is dumb
but not sure pk tel had a choice in the matter)
