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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!)"
wow, news for nerds.
rumors and no information available on the linked webpages.
I've had difficulties not visiting goatse.cx. Might as well give in. kaboom!
frist post!
Must be a nice upgrade...
When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
First Post!!
With parts of the US offline....
NOT!!
it's all Microsoft's fault!
YEAAH! I just wanna jack-off watching you jack-off. After that, I wanna watch you grab ya ass and bring yourself face to face with ya own groin - start suckin' ya own cock!
You were always the one who could make it squirt.
lid
I worked for an ISP once who had their POP in a really ghetto trailer (double wide) in Hawthorne, NV.
this is my sig
It would appear that a crazy guy outside the United Nation building in NYC decided to shoot his handgun a few times into the air and then throw up a handful of papers. Here's where it begins to get strange...(quote from a high level source in a major underground conspiracy organization)
"It would appear that one of the UN shooter's bullets descended upon a small duck floating on a pond in central park, this dying duck uttered one last pathetic pseudo-quack, therein setting off a major frantic duck migration south over Virginia and the NAP where UUNet peers traffic with other Tier One providers.
This morning while walking across the parking lot a UUnet network admin took note of this very fast moving flock of ducks and immediately called his mentor, a former professor of ornithology at UCLA.
Upon interviewing the professor earlier today for an unrelated article, this reporter discovered that the network admin and the professor had indeed been discussing the fasting moving duck migration. During the phone call the professor informed the network admin that he had been watching CNN and their coverage of the UN shooter. The professor said that he was especially curious about what was wrote upon the papers thrown into the air by the UN shooter. They immediately hung up and within a few minutes and several phone calls to old pals later the professor had the complete text of the papers. He immediately emailed the text of the letter to the network admin to confirm that indeed the duck migration was caused by none other than the UN shooter. the text of letter follows:
i hate ducks. you are under my command. i hate ducks. you will enter bad IBGP routes in your router. i hate ducks. your economy is partly based upon the breeding of ducks. I hate ducks. your economy must be destroyed because of your trade in ducks. I hate ducks. I am going to kill all the ducks unless you bring the Internet to its capitalistic knees. I hate ducks. You are still under my command. I hate ducks. Please don't take down yahoo because I distribute my duck hatemail from that account. I hate ducks.
get gun. get bullets. go for walk. I hate ducks.
The network admin was mesmorized by the message on the papers of the UN shooter. While at UCLA he minored in ornithology and had an intense love of ducks. Believing the UN Shooter's message he immediately entered some bad BGP routes in a few core routers at his employer UU-Net.
if you read this entire message I have no sympathy for you. QUACK !
that reminds me of those fucking great cdw commercials, "Uh, I think I broke the Internet" the guy says.
Yeah, that's some funny shit.
This is a tad bit OT, but a few years back I worked at this one radio station. It was one of those crappy light-hits stations and at it's peak was the most popular listen-at-work radio station in mid-Michigan.
Anyway, this station was literally run out of a trailer. On a dirt road, no less. When you walked in, you were standing in the middle of the living room. Manager/Program Director's desk sat off to the left. Walk straight in and the AP news computer sat in the dining room in addition to a regular PC used for dialup internet access. Next to that was the kitchen which was used as... well, a kitchen.
The studio was the master bedroom. They packed an enormous amount of equipment in there. Even though the big stuff was vented outside, it still sucked being in there in the middle of summer.
The best part however, was the location of the FM transmitter. This big hulking, whirring, blinking, refridgerator-sized transmitter with cables going everywhere, was located in the trailer's BATHROOM. The toilet had been removed and they had to cut a big hole in the wall for the 5" thick cable to go out to the antenna.
The had to be one of the oddest stations in the country, (it was a fun place to work) but I found the trailer abandoned 3 years ago when I stopped by to see if anyone I knew was still there.