[52558] in North American Network Operators' Group
UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 4 14:34:58 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55580,00.html
How and Why the Internet Broke
By Michelle Delio
9:35 a.m. Oct. 4, 2002 PDT
The Internet was very confused on Thursday.
But cyberspace hasn't gone senile. Those massive e-mail delays, slow
Internet connections and downed e-businesses were all caused by a software
upgrade that went horribly wrong at WorldCom's UUNet division, a large
provider network communications.
[...]
