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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 09 Aug '99

09 Aug '99

alan(a)globalcenter.NET (Alan Hannan) writes: > PS - sean's messages were not 'highly accurate' as they maintained > that WCOM was not reporting on the problems, while they were. To be more precise Alan, Sean said MCI/Worldcom's web site continued not to have any information about the outage. That is still true. I did miss the reference on the UUNET site, but now even UUNET has removed reference to the frame-relay outage from their web site. MCI/Worldcom's web site is reporting on their new 5cent a minute long distance plan this morning, so I suppose that means MCI/Worldcom's PR people have returned to work. But nothing about their frame-relay network on the website. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 09 Aug '99

09 Aug '99

> The information displayed here is not always accurate, and > often subjective. The information displayed in many forums is often subjective and not always accurate. Obviously the MCI/Worldcom spokepeople were overly optimistic in the CBS Marketwatch article, and also the Reuters article, before they left on Friday. As I mentioned the longer the outage has continued the fewer people seem to work at MCI/Worldcom. > Usually I'd argue that any information is better than no > information, but when the quality is of suspect value, I'm > not sure the viewpoint stands. Sorry Alan, I didn't realize that. I won't post any more about this outage. Call 800-644-NEWS if you want to hear what's happening with MCI/Worldcom. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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CORRECTION: Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 09 Aug '99

09 Aug '99

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >MCI/Worldcom's web site continues its long silence about this outage. A person pointed out to me that UUNET (part of MCI/Worldcom) has a note about the outage on their web site. Obviously not the first place I would have looked, but nevertheless a statement on a MCI/Worldcom web site. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 08 Aug '99

08 Aug '99

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >But no rest for the exhausted. There is a software upgrade scheduled later >tonight. I'm trying to post no more than once in 12 hours. The attempt to load software last night did not go well. The network collapsed again. If it didn't work the first three times, try, try, try again. MCI/Worldcom is resetting cards and switches one more time. In an interesting reverse escalation, the longer the outage continues; the fewer people there seem to be at worldcom. The VPs and managers seem to have vanished, leaving behind call takers and an occasional engineer who accidently picks up a phone. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >It is unknown when the network will stabilize. MCI/Worldcom now claims the network is 'up.' However it is suffering heavy congestion, in some parts dropping 90%-100% of the frames. We're debating with MCI/Worldcom what a 'working' PVC really means. But no rest for the exhausted. There is a software upgrade scheduled later tonight. I thought everyone in this business knew who Bernie was, I was wrong. Bernard J. Ebbers is the CEO of MCI/Worldcom. No I don't expect Bernie to know what a frame-relay switch looks like. But when 10% of the Chicago Board of Trade goes down the tubes, you expect the CEO of the network provider to be nominally in charge. Ebay's Meg Whitman showed up on CNBC and had public statements, AT&T's Michael Armstrong kept customers updated during their various outages which were much shorter than MCI/Worldcom's. Look on MCI/Worldcom's web site and the most recent statement you'll find is a press release about second quarter earnings. Hint: never sign a five-year contract with a provider. You never know just how bad they will get. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >It is unknown when the network will stabilize. Well, we still don't have all our PVC's back. We were back to the point of having only one PVC down, when the entire MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network collapsed again last night. Supposedly its been escalated to Bernie now. MCI/Worldcom's frame-relay network continues to 'toggle' switches throughout the network. There was an OC12 outage in Riverdale causing congestion. Several cards no longer worked at all. MCI/Worldcom is working on reloading software on 54 switches. Still no ETR. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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** NANOG17 Call For Presentations **
by Craig Labovitz 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

NANOG will hold its 17th meeting in Montreal, Canada on October 3 - 5, 1999 at the Hotel Wyndam Montreal. The meeting will be hosted by Nortel Networks and Mlink Internet. More information about the meeting, including current agenda topics and registration information, is available at: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910 Call For Presentations --------------------------------- NANOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points. Previous meetings have included presentations on: Backbone traffic engineering Coordination of inter-provider QoS Deployment experience with queueing disciplines (CAR, RED) Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures Security issues for the Internet core Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration Cooperative inter-provider caching Alternatives to hot-potato routing Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance Experience with differentiated services Reports from next-generation networks (Internet2, CA*net, etc) Inter-domain multicast deployment Backbone network failure analysis I nter-exchange point updates Tutorials have covered topics such as: BGP case studies Address allocation and renumbering External route selection IP multicast technologies How to Present ---------------------- Submit an informal one- or two-paragraph abstract describing the presentation in email to nanog-support(a)nanog.org. The proposal should be submitted well in advance of the conference. Notification of acceptance is rolling and is usually provided within several days of the receipt of the abstract. NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and other presentation topics. ------------------------- Craig Labovitz (734) 764-0252 voice Merit Network, Inc. labovit(a)merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
by Sean Donelan 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >It is unknown when the network will stabilize. MCI/Worldcom reports it is working on switch 15 of 16. We've got one last PVC still down. Supposedly it has been escalated as far as it can go within MCI/Worldcom. I haven't heard from Bernie yet :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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New Fax # for Network Solutions: 703 834-1852
by Steven J Sobol 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

After having called 703 742-9552 with the intent of sending over a confirmation to complete a couple tickets, I found that the other end just rang and rang and rang. Upon calling Network Solutions I was told that the new fax number is 703 834-1852. www.networksolutions.com still shows the old number. I have informed Chuck Gomes of this fact and hopefully it will get changed quickly. 834-1852 seems to be quite busy, but yesterday I was able to actually get to their fax machine and send the confirmation. The tickets in question were completed and closed this morning, so 834-1852 appears to be the correct number. :) -- North Shore Technologies Corporation http://www.NorthShoreTechnologies.net We don't just build websites; we build relationships! 815 Superior Ave. #610, Cleveland, OH 44114-2702 216.619.2NET 888.480.4NET Host of the Forum for Responsible & Ethical E-mail http://www.spamfree.org It really bothers me that there is an IRC channel called #jarjarsex.

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Aug 6 12:00:00 PDT 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 06Aug99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 300799 61912 310799 61846 010899 61817 020899 62029 030899 62101 040899 61977 050899 61856 060899 61906 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 5397 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 2825 (1559 cidr, 1266 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 478 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 839 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 06Aug99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 346 150 196 56.6% BCnet Backbone AS2609 124 20 104 83.9% EUnet-TN AS1221 547 450 97 17.7% TELSTRA-AS AS577 283 191 92 32.5% Bell Canada Backbone AS174 574 482 92 16.0% Performance Systems International AS3749 153 63 90 58.8% TECNET AS7046 327 240 87 26.6% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS4293 237 151 86 36.3% IMCI AS4200 178 101 77 43.3% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS7545 141 66 75 53.2% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS7657 230 156 74 32.2% The Internet Group Limited AS7496 107 34 73 68.2% Power Up AS10928 117 48 69 59.0% UNKNOWN AS9269 77 15 62 80.5% Hong Kong CTI AS6944 63 6 57 90.5% RapidSite, Inc. AS4755 133 77 56 42.1% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS719 457 406 51 11.2% LANLINK autonomous system AS2493 157 108 49 31.2% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS684 91 46 45 49.5% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS549 215 172 43 20.0% ONet Backbone AS3737 108 67 41 38.0% PenTeleData Inc. (ASN-PTD) AS209 263 226 37 14.1% Qwest Communications AS1785 253 216 37 14.6% NYSERNet Backbone AS1 503 468 35 7.0% BBNPLANET AS10724 43 9 34 79.1% UNKNOWN AS6762 33 2 31 93.9% Telecom Italia international high AS4307 32 1 31 96.9% SVINET-1 AS8023 43 13 30 69.8% CASTLES AS7745 38 8 30 78.9% BIGSKY-AS AS6629 61 31 30 49.2% NOAA-AS For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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