IMO, quite possibly a 'who'.

From http://www1.worldcom.com/us/tools/maintmsg/:

During the normal operations window on Thursday, October 3rd, 2002, WorldCom will be performing maintenance in the following cities: DOMESTIC: Atlanta, GA(ATAN, ATL1, ATL3, ATL4, ATL5); Boston, MA(BOS1, BOS6); Buffalo, NY(BUF1); Chicago, IL(CHI1, CHI2, CHI6); Cleveland, OH(CLE1); Washington, DC(DCA1, DCA6, DCA8, WASD); Denver, CO(DEN4); Detroit, MI(DET1); Dallas, TX(DFW7, DFW9); Newark, NJ(EWR1, EWR3); Kernersville, NC(GSO1); Houston, TX(HOU4, HOU7, HSN); Ashburn, VA(IAD6); Indianapolis, IN(IND6); Kansas City, MO(KCY1, KCY4); Los Angeles, CA(LAX1, LAX2, LAX4, LAX9); Miami, FL(MIA1); New York, NY(NYC1, NYC3, NYC9); Palo Alto, CA(PAO1); Philadelphia, PA(PHL1); Phoenix, AZ(PHX2); Pittsburgh, PA(PIT1); Sacramento, CA(SAC1); Santa Clara, CA(SCL1); Seattle, WA(SEA1, SEA4); San Francisco, CA(SFO1); San Jose, CA(SJC1, SJC5); Salt Lake City, UT(SLT1, SLT4); Saint Louis, MO(STL2); Vienna, VA(TCO1) --- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop@rocketship.com] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:54 PM To: Randy Bush Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: wcom

-----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:47 PM

more measurement sans insight or analysis. sadly a popular sport, though neither operations or research.

what *caused* the outage?

Outages like that are more likely to to be caused by a "who" rather than a "what". ;) -Jim P.