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UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties
FearlessFritz writes "UUnet seems to be having a bad time recently. Several sites in the SouthEast of the US have been slow or down. Here is Worldcom's quote from their web page: 'WorldCom is currently experiencing an interruption of service in various hubs in the U.S. We are working to restore a routing anomaly, and making necessary progress toward resolving this disruption in service.' There are several rumors abounding, but the best is that they performed a hardware upgrade that failed. Is anyone outside of the Southeastern U.S. experiencing the effects of this outage? (I am peered to several providers so I can post!)"
It will take a while for the 3 network techs that havent' been fired yet some time to fix this.
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Maybe the recent hurricanes knocked over the trailer containing the routers.
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If you're not here, raise your hand! If you can't get online, send an e-mail to the network admin!
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
Hub: Normal
Outages: Normal
this is from their network status page, i try to abstain from being a smart-ass but outages are normal?
-tid242
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I think his petswarehouse.com site's had so much traffic over the last couple of hours it's exploded and caused a huge chain reaction ;-)
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
...seems to be fine.
Oh, come on. Laugh! You know you want to.
So they are having routing problems and you put a link to their web page up. Nice of you.
. when our backbones fail... what do we do?
Slither around on the floor?
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The problem is pretty clear - they are working to restore a routing anomaly rather than correcting the ones they still have. I would tell them that if they continue to restore anomalies things will only get wrose, but I can't get through to them.
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"Diffiiculties?"
Oh, man, it's affecting data transmission quality now.
-Waldo Jaquith
The network outage was unrelated to WorldCom's bankruptcy, and the cause is unknown, Burns said.
I have this image that in order to save money, the are routing all of the Southeast's traffic through and AOL dialup using Windows internet sharing.
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I can't even get to the Pets Warehouse site!
echo 656472616c73746f6e406d61632e636f6d0a|xxd -r -p
I will give you your so called "Internet" back as soon as you declare me King of the World! Pinky, gnaw on that wire some more.
But Brain, it hurts my teef.
Pinky! Destiny awaits us!
Narf!
Brain taps foot, frowns at Pinky standing alone covered in electrical char with a wire in his mouth.
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" Is anyone outside of the Southeastern U.S. experiencing the effects of this outage? "
So let me get this straight: You want the users of Slashdot to report internet outages? And how are we supposed to rule out that Slashdot didn't cause them?
Significant increase in demand.
Redhat 8.0 ISO's
Mandrake 9.0 ISO's
UT 2003
Its obviously NOT a backbone problem....Redhat 8.0 just came out a few days ago...of coarse traffic is going to be nuts, and slower than hell, ITS 5 CD'S NOW!(including source, mind you)
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The worst part of an outage like this is the users always blame you for any connectivity problems. "I can't get to the D&B website, when are you going to have it fixed?", you patiently explain the circuits to your provider are fine, your provider's circuts are fine, and the problem is either with D&B's network or their provider. "Yeah, whatever, when are you going to have it fixed?", lusers are utterly hopeless, unfortunately you have to at least humor them when they sign your paychecks.
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