[ale] can't reach sites using DSL

[Jim Philips]

In the latest round of my saga, Earthlink/Mindspring has acknowledged
that a trace from the Atlanta DSL Redback shows the same hangups I see
when I do a trace from my desktop. It is definitely a routing problem at
their end. So, now I just have to wait for mountains to move and all of
that. I don't get the sense that they feel they have to hurry up and fix
a problem that is denying me close to 40% of the sites I visit.


On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 15:45, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> This happens when a major fiber bundle gets whacked by a backhoe and the
> routing hasn't caught up yet. 
> 
> It seems that the longer a fiber section is up and running with no
> problem, the longer an alternative route takes to appear if the fiber
> goes down. Has Cisco added a neural-net "feature" to their routers that
> rate a connection based on uptime and traffic flow? It sort of seems
> like a good idea for rapidly sending traffic on it's way when things are
> good. But unless it retains a "memory" of alternates for _when_ things
> break, it would take longer to repair routing tables.
> 



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