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wcom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian A Finlay)
Thu Oct 3 15:33:05 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:31:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ian A Finlay <iaf@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I know, I know, don't believe everything you read... ;-)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/816663.asp?0dm=C15MT
"Struggling WorldCom Inc., one of the major backbone providers of networks
that route traffic over the Internet, suffered a major commercial Internet
outage beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday, according to a company that
monitors Internet performance."
Article goes on to state the reason was a "software glitch".
FWIW,
Ian
