[10416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A good one from the UUnet NOC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mansfield)
Tue Jul 1 17:32:52 1997
From: Steve Mansfield <steve@nwnet.net>
To: jbeck@connectnet.com (Josh Beck)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:14:22 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: steve@nwnet.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95q+pgcc+pgp.970701131922.22430A-100000@brap.connectnet.com> from "Josh Beck" at Jul 1, 97 01:23:18 pm
> Here is UUnet's latest response: apparently they've suffered massive
> congestion and an impacted network in about 10 minutes! That's a good
Is that anything lik an impacted molar?
> sales team! Apparently they got their OC-12 network installed ahead of
> schedule as well, as we are finally back to normal:
Maybe things only got temporarily better? Some customers rerouted traffic
away from that path? *shrug*
> Forwarded message follows:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: UUNET Customer Liaison <help@UU.NET>
> To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> Subject: Re: Customer #UXXXXX (UUXXXXXX)
>
> Please do not take the (UUxxxxxx) information out of the subject header
> when replying to this problem. We use this number to track specific
> customer issues. Thank you.
>
> The latency you are experiencing in the Bay area is being addressed in the
> next few months with an OC12 network. This will provide increased bandwidth
> and alleviate some congestion.
Geez, I hope it takes less than a few months to fix...
Steve Mansfield steve@nwnet.net
NorthWestNet Network Engineer 425-649-7467
