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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!)"

6 of 408 comments (clear)

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

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

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

    "Diffiiculties?"

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

    -Waldo Jaquith