[19879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber outage for BBN 29 Sep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elvis)
Wed Sep 30 13:34:29 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elvis <elvis@fallenones.org>
To: Andy McConnell <andym@nttmcl.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95LJ1.1b4.980930094907.2405G-100000@alicia>
Yes, it wasn't exactly just BBN either, affected lots of providers... I
believe it was MCI owned fiber. At least the DC one. Dunno about the
Texas.
Bill
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Andy McConnell wrote:
> Curious - no one seemed to mention BBN Planet's "major" fiber cut
> yesterday. Their trouble system "shortcutted" calls to an automated
> message saying there were two major cuts in the Texas and Washington DC
> area. their ticket was #273439. As a BBN customer, we had trouble
> getting out of BBN all morning, and by early afternoon things were fine.
>
> Did anyone on the list see this sort of trouble?
>
> -Andy
>
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