[10906] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Golan Ben-Oni)
Thu Jul 17 09:37:44 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:14:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Golan Ben-Oni <bnite@tremere.ios.com>
To: Todd Wilkens <TWilkens@gridnet.com>
cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, "'randy@psg.com'" <randy@psg.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Gridnet%l=ENGINE9-970717125654Z-13348@engine9.gridnet.com>
Speaking of Worldcom, we just lost a handful of other circuits just now,
As of 8:51 Eastern, including two T3s, and some T1s in the NYC area.
WorldCom claims they have over 100 DS3s involved in this outage.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Todd Wilkens wrote:
> When Worldcom does change the DLR, you get an automated fax notification
> that states they are performing "maintenance" or a "groom" on your ckt.
> This means there is a high probablity they are changing the design of your
> ckt and your diversity may not exist after the groom. You should probably
> respond to the fax and find out exactly what they are doing.
>
> You can also have your sales rep mark you order in the Wcom database as
> "diversely routed". You also need to specify the ckt you want to be
> diversely routed from. This should stop you ckt from being added to any
> groom packages that are being put together. If your ckt is not marked
> diverse, grooms can occur frequently.
>
> >----------
> >From: randy@psg.com[SMTP:randy@psg.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 5:13 PM
> >To: Nathan Stratton
> >Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> >Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
> >
> >> Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know
> >
> >happens all the time. they do that like we move customers between router
> >ports.
> >
> >if you want to maintain path diversity, you have to continually monitor it
> >with your carriers. and then you'll need to go out and physically every
> >once in a while. yes, this is major major pain.
> >
> >randy
> >
>
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