[44402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest reporting widespread DSL outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Nov 22 20:25:45 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:25:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Joe St Sauver <JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Joe St Sauver wrote:
> This has been going on (according to the Qwest technical support
> person) for multiple hours, and Qwest has no further information.
> Qwest suggests DSL customers contact their ISP for further information
> (although it is clear that this is not an ISP-level issue at time time).
Maybe Qwest was jealous of BT's DSL network meltdown, and wanted to show
they can break a network better. Two DSL networks meltdown in the same
week?
> No Qwest web page or other information about the outage is available
> according to the Qwest support person.
According to http://stat.qwest.net/ Qwest and TouchAmerica have 100%
uptime for the last 90 days.
