[Tfug] Changes to Dakotacom's network

[Tyler Kilian]

At 12:28 AM 7/11/02 -0700, Adrian wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Just got a notice from Tyler (that went out to all Dakotacom subscribers)that
>Dakotacom is changing their network this Friday. Dropping several dialups and
>creating others on different numbers. Seems to be very short notice.


The notice is indeed short, for which I have not been able to apologize enough.
Ryan's link is timely and a major factor in this changeover.  Time Earner 
Telecom does indeed buy from Worldcom, just as Worldcom buys from Time 
Warner and AT&T buys from Expedius and Broadwing Buys from Worlcom and 
Qwest buys from Expedius and Time Warner, etc.  Worldcom does not "own" 
Time Warner in any fashion that I am aware of.


>In addition, Dakotacom is changing their nameservers to a new IP range. Did a
>quick check and it's currently assigned to Time Warner Telecom. Anybody 
>know if
>Dakotacom is poised to go down the RoadRunner sewer? I thought Dakotacom was
>doing well, anybody know what's up? Tyler, care to give us a technical
>explaination?


As for IPs, yes, some of the IPs we currently utilize belong to Time 
Warner.  Some belong to Sprint as well.  Dakota has no plans of folding, 
selling, going under, being single-homed, etc.  This has been our best year 
ever and since we've been doing this for many years now, that should 
assuage all fears you might have.

We are indeed locally owned and operated and 100% not like Roadrunner. 
;)  We are being proactive so as not to be reactive and behind the 8 ball 
if something happens.  Besides all this, the changes being made on a rapid 
time frame now were planned for the fall anyway and do not represent an 
overall degredation in service, but rather measured steps towards greatness. :)

We are also going to be upgrading our bandwidth for DSL via Qwest Fiber (if 
they ever install it, heh) adding a shell server, most likely begin 
supporting at least one distribution of Linux, and continuing a plan of 
physical re-wiring (for aesthetics) and general updates and upgrades of all 
kinds.





# Tyler Kilian, CCNP
# Technology Director, Dakota Communications
# TKilian@DakotaCom.NET | 520.745.3900 x 100