On Wed, 12 July 2000, Jon Mansey wrote:

"Due to a hardware misconfiguration, the entire MAE West peering point is down to all users. This includes all ISPs and all networks who peer at that NAP. Please be assured that MFS is doing their utmost to repair their problem."

MAE-West has been troubled for the last few days. MFS (Oh, I mean Worldcom) is replacing one of the core gigaswitch SCP cards tonight (est. midnight PDT). I did not hear about any misconfiguration or procedural errors.