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UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wrong-button-wrong-button dept.

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!)"

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  1. Hurricane(s) ? by simetra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the recent hurricanes knocked over the trailer containing the routers.

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    1. Re:Hurricane(s) ? by Drey · · Score: 4, Funny

      But did they have a pile of old dead switches and routers in front of it with the grass growing up through the cases?

  2. Roll call by Dannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Roll call by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 5, Funny
      If you can't get online, send an e-mail to the network admin!
      I just sent him an email about the email being down. Oh, wait, I have an email. Oh. . ., wait, I'm the netwerk admin.

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  3. Re:Please give them some time. by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn. Make that 2 network techs. The 3rd one is busy moding of /.

  4. normal. by tid242 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dialup: Normal
    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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  5. I blame Robert Novak... by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 ;-)

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  6. Re:Internet Down, Reboot! by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

    . when our backbones fail... what do we do?

    Slither around on the floor?

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  7. "Diffiiculties"? by waldoj · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Diffiiculties?"

    Oh, man, it's affecting data transmission quality now.

    -Waldo Jaquith

  8. The lusers always blame the local admin by ces · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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