Re: b.root-servers.net

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> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:52:34PM +0000,
> George <news-text@georgeland.co.uk> wrote
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> > My question is. Does it work for you ?
>
> No. It fails from many places. Nobody at ISI (home of B) seems to
> really care and not our ISP either.

its not that we don't care, its that the problems are
not with our direct upstream providers. it is problematic
to encourage third parties to be interested in changing
thier filters when the reported problem does not include
one of their customers.

It sounds like you have problems with one or more of your
direct upstream providers. You should have leverage there.

regarding your list of affected sites; where target IP address
exist, we have something to work with. reports of problems
where data is lacking, "... it doesn't work from <area>, no IP
available..." are worse than useless. concrete data, names,
contact information... those are helpful.

expecting all reported reachability problems to be solved
"right now" is unrealistic when there are many parties involved.

that said, we did run an extended period of reachability testing
before making the public annoument. the prefix was visable from
africa, india, australia, south america, north america, EU, central
asia, and the pacrim ... before we asked ICANN to proceed. Sorry
we missed you and we are working the issues to the best of our
ability.

--bill