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Re: Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Jun 23 16:53:01 2003
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:52:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306231623110.24237-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Has anyone heard what the cause of the outage was?
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> Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users
> Saturday, 21 June 2003
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> The breakdown of one of Sweden's main Internet routers in Stockholmon
> today unplugged more than 1 million of its Internet subscribers.
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> Reports says in total over 340,000 broadband and 700,000 dial-up customers
> across the country were affected by the incident.
>
> The router failure might also have caused disruptions to other Internet
> subscribers, who use the services of providers operating on the Telia
> network.
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>
> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_885166.htm
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