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RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
by Steve Martin 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

Thank you. BIFF is was! -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Stratton [SMTP:nathan@netrail.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 10:56 AM To: Scott Landman Cc: bnite(a)tremere.ios.com; mpearson(a)games-online.com; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom Fiber cut, it is back up now. Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16 On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any idea what percentage of their total capacity was lost? > Also, is this the result of equipment failure or cut fiber? > > >

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Re: Mae-West
by Sean M. Doran 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

Not that I would suggest using them over the whole nanog list, but, um, do the mae-west-techs(a)uu.net (or was it mae-west@ and cix-techs@... i forget) list and its siblings still work? Sean.

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Alternic takes over Internic traffic
by Hank Nussbacher 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,12382,00.html

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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
by rbuchals＠hotmail.com 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

>From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd(a)clock.org> > >What?! But wait, just a day ago, a UUNET engineer was going on >about how ATM is good because it helps prevent failures at the IP layer... That only works when there's enough reserve bandwidth out there in the ATM 'cloud' to reroute failed PVCs. You'd think that they would diversely route their ATM trunks. Maybe they turned auto-reroute off... -rb ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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MAE West news
by baretone＠erols.com 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

MAE West Down a Second Time By Randy Barrett Power failed at the Metropolitan Access Exchange West on the morning of July 16, the second time an outage has crippled the major peering point in less than a week. At 8:17am PST, a 100-amp breaker failed and cut power to the number one giga switch at the MFS/WorldCom portion of MAE West. WorldCom Inc. (www.wcom.com) officials said electricity was restored by 9:06am. During the outage, all Internet service providers peering with MFS at the site experienced difficulties handing off data packets, said WorldCom spokesperson Linda Laughlin. "The providers on the MFS side were killed," said Rob Bowman, director of engineering for Exodus Communications Inc. (www.exodus.net) On July 11 a similar outage occurred after a construction crew at the site accidentally shorted out power. That caused a major slow down in Internet traffic on the west coast, particularly for small providers who were not multi-homed"or using two backbone providers. MAE West is run cooperatively by NASA Ames Research Center and MFS Communications Co. Network operators reported the NASA side of MAE West was not affected by the power failure. Laughlin said WorldCom was flying several power engineers to the site to evaluate the electrical situation. Senior Writer Inter@ctive Week http://www.intweek.com A Ziff-Davis publication Voice: 703-938-2087 Fax: 2088

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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
by Sean M. Doran 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

What?! But wait, just a day ago, a UUNET engineer was going on about how ATM is good because it helps prevent failures at the IP layer... Sean. - -- >At 11:59am today WorldCom lost 6 major ATM trunks from St. Louis to L.A. >MANY MANY ISPs are in some state of down.

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Re: MAE West news
by Curt Howland 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

> MAE West Down a Second Time > > By Randy Barrett ... > Laughlin said WorldCom was flying several power engineers to the site to > evaluate the electrical situation. It seems they were able to repeat the problem... :^<

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RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
by Steve Martin 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

Was it a BIFF? -Steve -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Pearson [SMTP:mpearson@games-online.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 10:31 AM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: BOOM! there goes WorldCom At 11:59am today WorldCom lost 6 major ATM trunks from St. Louis to L.A. So as you can imagine... MANY MANY ISPs are in some state of down. Just letting you know. No time estimate to repair has been made.

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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
by Scott Landman 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

Does anyone have any idea what percentage of their total capacity was lost? Also, is this the result of equipment failure or cut fiber?

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Fwd: #127669/C (1site) appl:A site in Germany reports routing proble...
by Timothy M. Lyons 16 Jul '97

16 Jul '97

The end of this issue - last post by me anyhow. Seems to be a bandwidth issue on a segment of the BBN-Planet network. --Tim ---Internet Operations Center <ops(a)bbnplanet.com> wrote: > > Ticket Number: 127669 Ticket Status: closed > Ticket Type: unplanned/e2e Scope/Source: 1site/email > Ticket Closer: jhickey Problem Fixer: none > Ticket Opened: 07-15-1997 14:32 GMT Problem Started: 07-15-1997 14:32 GMT > Ticket Closed: 07-16-1997 01:14 GMT Problem Ended: 07-15-1997 14:32 GMT > > Close Code: ucp > > Svc/Site ID #: 178044 > Svc/Site Name: appl > > Description: > > A site in Germany reports routing problems resulting in difficulties > reaching www.apple.com. > > Coming from either 194.97.200.30 or 195.254.23.1 and going to > www.apple.com traces seem to be delayed around paloalto. Winfried Haug from > the source reports their AS is 5549 and the first Net is announces as a /16 > from their former upstream, they have 194.97.192.0/18. The second block > has no super-route, but is splitted between themselves and another ISP, they > have 195.254.0.0/17. Traces attached. > > Resolution: > > Per neteng this issue is directly related to the saturated T3 from paloalto > to decwrl (PAIX). However (also per neteng) there is nothing to be done at > this time about offloading any of this traffic and thus no resolution to the > observed issue until the OC3 is delivered. > > ======================================================================= > > > BBN Planet Corporation, provider of world-class Internet Services > including AT&T WorldNet (SM) Managed Internet Services. For more > information, contact our Internet Operations Center at > +1 800 632 7638, +1 617 873 8730, ops(a)bbnplanet.com, or > http://www.bbn.com/support > > > _____________________________________________________________________ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com

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