[44410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest reporting widespread DSL outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat Nov 24 01:03:35 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:05:32 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Joe St Sauver <JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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I'm not running to any telco-conglomerates' defense, but I think it is
safe to assume that legacy-Qwest national IP backbone (read: ex-IconNET,
AS209) is quite different than legacy-SBC IP net.
No?
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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