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Re: OUTAGE: DACS failure in USWEST/spokane

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scott w)
Sun Dec 27 14:43:47 1998

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 09:23:17 -1000 (HST)
From: scott w <scott@digisle.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <981227083801.21b12@SDG.DRA.COM>

On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
> SEAN@dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes:
> >This morning USWEST lost a DACS serving Spokane (and other places
> >in Washington State).
> 
> Now the story starts changing.  The telco is now saying it was
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is what I see a lot.  It is hard for me to tell if it is really a
DACS problem or a scapegoat reason.  They use DACS problems the same as a
DS-3 cut.  Just to give a fast (but many times untrue) RFO so they can
quickly close their ticket.  (It just causes me to push more for the
actual one)

scott


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