[16171] in North American Network Operators' Group
re: AT&T outage (was: the whole world disappeared)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Generous)
Tue Apr 14 12:02:00 1998
From: Curtis Generous <generous@uucom.com>
In-Reply-To: <980414002334.4c61@SDG.DRA.COM> from Sean Donelan at "Apr 14, 98 00:23:34 am"
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
According to Sean Donelan:
> > All AT&T InterSpan North American frame services are down. Our 200
> > site WAN just went dark. No ETA for repair.
>
> I'm starting to feel jinxed.
>
> This afternoon AT&T was in the office explaining how wonderful their
> network was, and tonight the AT&T network falls over.
We're in trouble - AT&T was also at my office yesterday - same
sales pitch I believe :-)
It's been close to 12 hours, and we are still not seeing any routers
on the AT&T connected frame services - any word on an ETA?
--curtis
Tue Apr 14 04:31:49 EDT 1998
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