[52517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wcom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sgorman1@gmu.edu)
Thu Oct 3 15:43:15 2002
From: <sgorman1@gmu.edu>
To: Ian A Finlay <iaf@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:39:45 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The details can be found here:
http://www.matrixnetsystems.com/ea/advisories/20021003_instant_alert.jsp
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian A Finlay <iaf@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2002 3:31 pm
Subject: wcom
>
> 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
> networksthat route traffic over the Internet, suffered a major
> commercial Internet
> outage beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday, according to a company
> thatmonitors Internet performance."
>
> Article goes on to state the reason was a "software glitch".
>
> FWIW,
> Ian
>
>
>
