Hi I suspect that it's not an unusual stance. If it is common, it would be something to think long and hard about in a mission critical timing setup.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Didier Juges Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:51 PM To: Time-Nuts Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme Not unlike Cox. They generally provide great service, but when problems do crop up (rare, but it has happened), the only thing that they guaranty is that you will get their bill in the mail on time. Any more than that is just gravy... Didier ------------------------ Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -----Original Message----- From: "Bob Camp" <li...@rtty.us> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:36:22 To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'<time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme Hi Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither broke it or fixed it. It came back up today at around 10. I had an "interesting" conversation with an advanced tech support supervisor at Century Link / Embarq. According to this gentleman, their lines are only guaranteed to pass port 80 traffic (HTTP). Anything other than that is "not covered by the service agreement". The only thing they will guarantee you can get to is their web site. Past that, if it's broke they have no responsibility what so ever for fixing it. That's not referring to port or traffic blocking. They all swear they don't and would never do that. Since timing and the like are going to things other than port 80, and using protocols other than http does, I assume his statements = no timing traffic support. The guy could easily have been mistaken, that sort of thing does happen around midnight. If what he said is true, any sort of system that relied on their network for time would be *very* much in trouble if something subtle broke. Being broke in a way that passes one thing and not another is unusual, but not impossible. Crazy stuff .. Bob _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.