It would also be a lot of fun to see all the gory details about how exactly things got cut, and what they had to do to fix it. Maybe it was easy, maybe they ran out of slack in the cable and needed to wait hours for more cable to arrive, maybe the one guy who knows how to fix things is on vacation, etc. I spoke to someone at MCI WorldCom Fiber Security who claims they have an organized repository for stuff like this on their intranet. If you're a customer, they said the only way to find out about current outages is to call the MFS/Brooks/whatever trouble number you have, or try to get your sales rep to get post-mortem info if your outage was long enough to trigger SLA credits. -- Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Joe Shaw wrote:
Speaking of fiber cuts, there's an MCI/Worldcom fiber run in downtown Houston, TX that's out. The location is at Walker and Louisiana as best I can tell, which just so happens to be in front of the building my office is in. There's a long line of MCI Worldcom trucks and a crew out there now. Several multi-homed customers of UUNet in Houston have their UUNet links down. I'll send more info as I have it.
Both Qwest and BBN/GTEi have POP's in this building, but they appear to be unaffected. UUNet's main Houston POP is a few hundred feet down Louisiana.
With all the construction in this area of downtown, I'm frankly shocked that this hasn't happend until now.
-- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."