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Re: mobile.att.net dead

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Tue Apr 29 22:23:42 2003

To: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:22:16 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



>If you are relying on AT&T's paging/SMS service (for your phones) to be
>alerted to (most certainly undesirable) operational events (or if you are
>replying to them via the 2-way SMS service), this is a good time for a
>backup pager: [...]
>Both are dead like a door stop, and we can speculate on wether they
>are located in the same physical building, on the same routed interface,
>and the same physical switch, which failed the single processor
>blade driving both of them.

POI: AT&T wireless service response to wireless phone trouble
report about 30 min ago was that AT&T wireless and AT&T long
distance stopped communicating a little while ago for reasons
not clearly known to AT&T wireless.

Facility somewhere go boom?  Cable cut?


-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com


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