On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:24:33 CDT, Alan Hannan wrote:

I'm seeing alot of problems with Netcom, and I can't seem to get any info from them, the net, or the normal grapevine.

I read about it on one of the ISP lists. Called their tech support around 09:00 PDT this morning and got a report that a few of the POPs were up around the country, but they didn't know which ones. Later today, one of their press people actually admitted to being down from yesterday afternoon until 05:00 PDT today, although I couldn't see any of their web or mail/shell servers until about noon. Here's the original message from the list. Do they really have a single point of failure someplace?

Message-Id: <v03006f08adecee442329@[157.22.222.199]> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:41:50 -0700 To: inet-access-dist@earth.com From: "Rusty H. Hodge" <rusty@hodge.com> Subject: Major Net Failure at Netcom

As of about 4pm today, Netcom has had a major failure of their entire network, apparently all POPs are down as well as all leased line customers. The have localized the problem to their BGP/OSPF routers. (wow, that must have taken a brain surgeon to figure out.)

At the moment, they have disconnected themselves from MAE-West and "have the people who designed the network working on it".

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