On Mon, 02 April 2001, Jon Stanley wrote:

interface. Apparently some routing process got hung and had to be restarted, the person on the other end of the phone was a little unclear as to what the problem really was.....

Has anyone spoken with someone who was a little clearer about what the problem was? Was it operator error/software bug routing problems, or an attack. It seemed unusually wide-spread, and normally UUNET is good about saying what happened. But this time everyone seems a bit fuzzy.