[52708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WorldCom Suffers Widespread Internet Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wedgwood)
Tue Oct 8 23:20:10 2002
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:19:07 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021004144730.009f8d50@mail.macronet.net>
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:49:44PM -0400, blitz wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=575&u=/nm/20021003/wr_nm/tech_worldcom_outage_dc_5&printer=1
> Made the news...
[...]
Based on a preliminary investigation, WorldCom blamed the outage on
problems with a "route table," or software map that directs traffic
to the proper destination. The company declined to identify the
route table manufacturer.
--cw
