IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily. IXC was unable to provide ETR. On a side-note, if you are in the ameritech service area, ixc's 800 number translation is not working. You get to hear a non-standard 'all circuits are busy'. If you need to reach them, call their austin number 5124273700 BR
Cut is isolated... It is in CHI area.. Right outside a carrier known only as "Norlight".. The join appears to be known as the "MidWest Relay".. Several pipes vendors appear to be affected, one of which is CNI, aka "Consolidated McClout" (sp ?) ETR: Initial circuits 1 hour, 30 min.... Remainder ASAP. On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area.. Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds it makes in the middle of the night.... :) Good luck... and enjoy the day everyone. Bradley Reynolds wrote:
IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily.
IXC was unable to provide ETR.
On a side-note, if you are in the ameritech service area, ixc's 800 number translation is not working. You get to hear a non-standard 'all circuits are busy'. If you need to reach them, call their austin number 5124273700
BR
At 02:43 PM 9/19/98 -0500, Richard Irving wrote:
On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area.. Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds it makes in the middle of the night....
now i was told by a reliable source that there was a second backhoe seen motoring away from the grassy knoll... richard -- Richard Welty NeWorks Networking, Inc. 518-244-9675 rwelty@neworks.net http://www.neworks.net/
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:05:04PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
At 02:43 PM 9/19/98 -0500, Richard Irving wrote:
On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area.. Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds it makes in the middle of the night.... now i was told by a reliable source that there was a second backhoe seen motoring away from the grassy knoll...
I'm wondering if night construction will contribute to more backhoes hitting fiber or not. A number of construction companies and such have started doing their work at night. Just something to ponder late at night. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/
Certainly more late night cuts (like 10pm -> 4am) than the opposite (10am to 4pm). -Deepak. On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:05:04PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
At 02:43 PM 9/19/98 -0500, Richard Irving wrote:
On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area.. Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds it makes in the middle of the night.... now i was told by a reliable source that there was a second backhoe seen motoring away from the grassy knoll...
I'm wondering if night construction will contribute to more backhoes hitting fiber or not. A number of construction companies and such have started doing their work at night. Just something to ponder late at night.
- jared
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jared Mauch wrote:
I'm wondering if night construction will contribute to more backhoes hitting fiber or not. A number of construction companies and such have started doing their work at night. Just something to ponder late at night.
Heavy construction has been going on at night as long as there has been flood lights - most state agency require it to be at night especially on congested roadways. -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net
IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily.
Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits, including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT. /cvk
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:39:21AM -0500, Charley Kline wrote:
IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily.
Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits, including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT.
I guess the train pulled out... Cheers, -- jr "Rolled along through houses, farmes, and fields..." a -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff "The net is safer in bad weather: you The Suncoast Freenet can't run a backhoe Tampa Bay, Florida in a hurricane." (after Sean Donelan) +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 02:04:46PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:39:21AM -0500, Charley Kline wrote:
IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily.
Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits, including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT.
I guess the train pulled out...
Heh. And I found out today that Qual.Net (to whom I'm indirectly connected) was affected too... -- "You know, I've decided lizards aren't too smart." --Me, to "Junior", one of my iguanas
When I was riding Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor today, I saw a backhoe right near the track somewhere in upstate NY. So, be forewarned of an impending disaster... :)
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