[32275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 problems - was Re: Uunet to Level 3 San Jose peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Wed Nov 15 19:27:03 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:23:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex <alex@nac.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: "Rusty H. Hodge" <rusty@hodge.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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Never. That never happens. Telcos all run thier own fiber in thier own
conduits, and protect it using SONET.
Bahahhahahahahha. Yeah, right.
Apparently, there was a cut on a route that took out a variety of
carriers; someone I know who has a OC12 riding on Broadwing was down for a
little while.
Someone should start a database, where you enter information of where a
fiber cut took place, what end points were effected, and start building
correlations. That might be somewhat interesting.
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> >According to Uunet:
> >
> > Level3 is having a major outage
>
> Abovenet is also reporting a major fibre cut, and there's reports of
> PSINet having a major outage, too.
>
> Are they all sharing the same fibre, per chance?
>
> Simon
