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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!)"
wasn't MCI/Worldcom/C&W involved in lawsuit a few yrs ago for similar problems, but they went on for 3 days ?.. back then they got sued for loss of business, imagine whats gonna happen now.
You would think they would have learn't. But they're still hiding information from people.. great. Maybe it's gone with the 6 billion dollars...
Judging by ITR the big crash happened around 8 am Eastern time... maybe everybody got to work in the Boston-to-DC corridor, checked their email and said "A bugbear? That sounds cute", sending millions of emails and backdoor remote attack sessions over an internetwork that is already having trouble because of a hurricane.
Meanwhile, everyone who was on a system that doesn't use Outlook was slamming the FTP servers for RH8 or Lunar 1.
All's true that is mistrusted