[8626] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Sat Apr 12 13:45:25 1997
To: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
cc: egrimellmann@attmail.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:52:07 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:07:28 -0400
From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
the relationship between mci and bbn is one of peering. bbn
is no longer a transit customer of internetMCI. we peer with
them directly in multiple locations. i can't speak with authority
about the relationship between bbn and at&t. i understood that
it was one of provider/reseller.
Jeff Young
young@mci.net
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> From: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
> Subject: Re: MCI outage
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> As far as I can tell ATT Worldnets backbone service was out from about
> 6pm eastern daylight time last night until after I went to bed at one am
> this morning. I could connect to the mercerville pop fine.....however my
> packets went no where. I called the customer service number and received
> a not very helpful message about the service being temporarily unavailable
> after wading through several layers of voicemail menus.
>
> MCI used to carry BBN cicrcuits which have at one point carried worldnet
> circuits....... any relationship here?
>
> this is first worldnet backbone outtage since I started using them in mid
> december to reach netaxs. anyone know what happened?
>
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