[29375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet fiber cut (pgh, pa)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Tue Jun 20 01:14:37 2000
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:13:10 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex <alex@nac.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: deeann@telerama.com, nanog@merit.edu
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This worldcom outage is somehow (according to the Broadwing NOC, which
gets about a -4 on my clue scale) affecting Broadwing, Williams, Wiltel
(isn't that worldcom?) on the northeast corridor.
I've lost a DS3 from NYC to Philly, suspiciously at the same time as this
pittsburgh outage.
On 19 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 June 2000, deeann mikula wrote:
> > does anyone have the scoop on the "major fiber cut" in the UUnet
> > backbone affecting areas around pgh, pa?
>
> Worldcom has a fiber cut affecting at least 11 OC48s between Pittsburgh
> and Washington DC. Folks have reported that UUNET's Pittsburg hub was
> isolated from the rest of the network. The best estimated time to repair
> is sometime overnight.
>
> Also Sprint reloaded most of their routers recently, and there have been
> sporadic reports of problems in different Sprint cities yesterday. I don't
> have good information about the reasons.
>
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