I just heard off a friend that there is a possible Ameritech Fiber cut...is there any validity to that? There doesn't seem to be the usual noise around fiber cuts, so I'm guessing that's not the case? Does anyone from the Ameritech side have a defintive answer? Ralph M. Los Asst. Vice-President, Internet Systems and Security EnvestnetPMC rlos@envestnet.com (312) 827-3945 (direct) (312) 296-9003 (wireless w/voicemail) * If you haven't been hacked, you don't know where your vulnerabilities lie* -----Original Message----- From: John Lodden [mailto:jrl@lodden.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:20 AM To: Los, Ralph Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: 800-number outage? Ameritech SCP that handles lookups to the national SMS database is having software problems, it seems to be working soft of now. -John Lodden MichTel, Inc.

Does anyone know about this outage? Seems like every 800-type number in the country is out right

it a network problem somewhere?

Ralph M. Los Asst. Vice-President, Internet Systems and Security EnvestnetPMC rlos@envestnet.com (312) 827-3945 (direct) (312) 296-9003 (wireless w/voicemail) * If you haven't been hacked, you don't know where your vulnerabilities

now...is lie*